Blushes Turned Dark Blemishes - Hand-colored Antique Ambrotype of Mother and Child american folk art architecture one-of-a-kind box and board with

one-of-a-kind box and board with great character and  many years of play left in it

On the cord

Like other puzzle cubes (I'm listing a few more modern Japanese versions I just picked up as well)

which appears to constructed at least in part of driftwood

B: 14 1/4” x 7 1/4”

Blushes Turned Dark Blemishes - Hand-colored Antique Ambrotype of Mother and Child american folk art architecture one-of-a-kind box and board withI've always looking for antique photos and anything really made better by the chance effects of time, and this is very much one of those. I believe originally the cheeks of this mother and child were given a pink hand tinted blush, but over time that blush turned to near black, now looking like dramatic blemishes or diseases of the skin, which seem as if threatening to overtake their faces entirely. The result makes me think of Hawthorne's The