Doubly Lovely: Victorian Tinsel Painting of Flowers in Original Shell Decorated Frame from Bristol, Maine swirls and which is just too

and which is just too right to leave behind

This one is the larger of the two just in: 9 1/8" x 8"

what I especially love here is that we have the hair of both "George" and "Little George"--and on reverse a few letters that look very much like the work of a young child

which is still in operation

Doubly Lovely: Victorian Tinsel Painting of Flowers in Original Shell Decorated Frame from Bristol, Maine swirls and which is just tooI found this one in southern Maine this week and it is PERFECT. (Photos might suggest it is very small, but it is in fact quite substantial, and heavy, and feels very much an object with that really excellent seashell frame, shells on solid wood, with gold painted sides.) I do believe the frame is original to the tinsel reverse glass painting, all in beautiful condition, without a shell missing. And I have to say this is about as elegant a tinsel