Wonderful Antique Russian Icon Painting on Tin, Saint Nicholas and Saint Michael detail brush with tiny pin holes in

with tiny pin holes in the top corners

especially his otters like this one

with pencil (and some erasure marks) underneath

Made of brass and shaped like a book

) though he hasn't quite worked it out yet

Wonderful Antique Russian Icon Painting on Tin, Saint Nicholas and Saint Michael detail brush with tiny pin holes inI've always got an eye out for religious icon paintings on tin, but rarely come across one I love as much as this large one, which is Russian (though much faded, there is painted Russian text in white above each figure) and depicts St. Nicholas at left and St. Michael at right. Saint Nicholas of Bari patron saint of children, sailors, and travelers (and the prototype of Father Christmas) is especially popular in Eastern Orthodox icons, most often