19th C. American Stereoview Co. Pea Fowl Albumen Stereoview Russian peasant dolls with scattered small toning spots

with scattered small toning spots visible in the sky

and appears to me to be quite old

make it expandable--and then immediately after finding it I found this one

looking perfectly bruised and on the verge of beginning to rot

and some hand-drawn geometrical formations on the flip side

19th C. American Stereoview Co. Pea Fowl Albumen Stereoview Russian peasant dolls with scattered small toning spotsI though this 19th c. albumen photo stereoview featuring a peacock and peahen might make a pretty nice valentine, with the pair facing opposite directions but with heads precisely aligned. I like how the staggered stereoview cropping of the images gives each bird its due, too, with the tail feathers of the peacock fully in the frame of the left image, while at right it's the tip of the tail of the hen. And i love how the pile of dried flowers and