19th C. Folk Art Painted Full Plate Tintype of Stern Looking Couple with Bible (in Large Hand!) modernist planter and original hanging loop

and original hanging loop

6" t x 4 1/4" w x 2 3/4" d and heavy

really makes them feel rather holy--more like alms boxes than coin banks

)  This one is by Don Curreri (1930-2014)

and I am pretty certain they are Scandinavian

19th C. Folk Art Painted Full Plate Tintype of Stern Looking Couple with Bible (in Large Hand!) modernist planter and original hanging loopI've been eyeing antique painted tintypes like this one lately which I think have a wonderfully surreal sort of strangeness to them so was very happy to find this one at an estate near me this week. A very nice example too, I think, strange feeling indeed, between his hair and beard and her large hands not feeling quite of her body. With what I take for a bible in her hand, painted red and certainly they look like a devout pair! Nice gold painted