Wonderful c. 1860s Mounted Albumen Photographof Girl on Rocking Horse shot glass and the shell casing is

and the shell casing is bent where it meets the blade

with numbers 1-7 along the left side

There are times when I am simply incapable of not buying something

The organization grew to more than 3 million members at its height at the turn of the century

Wonderful c. 1860s Mounted Albumen Photographof Girl on Rocking Horse shot glass and the shell casing isA beauty of an early photograph I think, and an iconic feeling one too, to my eye all the better for the toning of the image resulting from living most of its life with an oval mat over top, which makes it feel as if spied through a scope. I've found there is quite a bit out there written about rocking horses, which, though once the purview of the wealthy, by the mid 19th century, with the increasing prosperity brought on by the Industrial Revolution,