Brilliantly Colored Bird and Berries, Unusual Early Tinsel Painting in Original Frame boxes inside box I found this great old

I found this great old chip carved tramp art frame with a drawing dated 1840s inside of it (which I'm listing separately)

Funny how a series of wavy painted lines and dabs in just the right red transform a plaster slab into what could only be taken for bacon--and there's just something about bacon

Box shows wear and a couple of repairs as documented

who signed it on the bird side in the same red ink he used to annotate the drawings in fancifully dotted cursive

Brilliantly Colored Bird and Berries, Unusual Early Tinsel Painting in Original Frame boxes inside box I found this great oldFinding this one made me realize how rare it is to come across an early folk art tinsel painting of a bird I've since found a few examples out there, notably in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum, but certainly there are hundreds of urns of flowers and fruit for every bird on branch! And what a bird, neck and breast and tail feathers a colorful, scalloped patchwork of shimmery foils showing through the reverse painted glass. And those red