Young Man on Red Stool with Painterly Rug, Antique Folk Art Painted Tintype girl drawing I purchased this pie wheel

I purchased this pie wheel at the estate sale of a couple in their 90s who had a fantastic collection of primitives

and the seller I purchased it from bought it in the early 1980s at auction from Eldred's on Cape Cod

but these are really at another level

Such a happy thing to set at the center of the table

Stands sturdy and all drawers open and close

Young Man on Red Stool with Painterly Rug, Antique Folk Art Painted Tintype girl drawing I purchased this pie wheelI've become very enamored with antique folk art painted tintypes, and this example embodies exactly why wonderfully strange, rather surreal, and feeling quite out of time and place. Especially great helmet like hair on this serious young man in black suit, who seems 3 dimensional against the flat gray painted ground (making me think of a fotocultura), but best of all the electric feeling red and black detailing on his chair, and the painterly red and