Antique Hand-painted Full Plate Tintype, Woman with Pink Rose and Feathered Hat vintage wax mashed potatoes what a fantastic shelf

what a fantastic shelf

They are done in graphite on each page with the backs left blank

There is some loss of paint and signs of wear in a few spots

and which someone cared enough to salvage

Antique Hand-painted Full Plate Tintype, Woman with Pink Rose and Feathered Hat vintage wax mashed potatoes what a fantastic shelfThis one is much better in person the intensity of her blue green painted coat is really rather otherworldly. I never paid a whole lot of attention to painted tintype portraits before, but recently found a few in the collection of an artist near me (which was also the source of the Mexican fotoculturas I've recently sold and some charcoal photo portraits I have yet to list, too) and I've become quite taken with them. The flat, matte gray ground really