Excellent Looking Old Prop Camera tiny painting The deep blue porcelain enamel

The deep blue porcelain enamel surface is pretty gorgeous

Painted the perfect yellow with curtained windows and some greenery too

His magic career began inauspiciously in New York City in 1858--his act

4 1/2" wide (handle is 1 3/4" wide)

Excellent Looking Old Prop Camera tiny painting The deep blue porcelain enamelThis old camera doesn't do a thing; I believe it was just made as a prop, though I have no idea the story behind its making and what it was used for. I just found it find it! a wonderful looking and evocative thing, with frame upon frame of linen (constructed, I believe, to emulate) collapsed bellows surrounding the lens at dead center. Setting it somewhere now feels like inserting the presence of an all seeing eye or acknowledging the contemporary