Backs Turned, Bodies Lost to Grassy Hill, Lighthouses, Late 19th Century Paper Print Cyanotype woman in brown dress underneath on the base are

underneath on the base are Chinese characters

I'm very tempted to keep this one for myself

The pastel watercolor triangles one this one feel to me like serenity itself

I'd call this great old tin and wood toy candlestick telephone a teaching toy--and increasingly so

2 3/16" t x 1 1/2" w x 1/2" d

Backs Turned, Bodies Lost to Grassy Hill, Lighthouses, Late 19th Century Paper Print Cyanotype woman in brown dress underneath on the base areThe lighthouse pictured here is Cape Neddick Lighthouse (aka "Nubble Lighthouse") in Cape Neddick, Maine, completed about 1880. (Lots about that history here. ) There are plenty of photos of it out there, historic and contemporary, but none I've found that portrays a sense of this grassy expanse from which one might look up at it. And for me it's all about that perspective, with only the heads and shoulders of this seated pair visible, their bodies