Dapper Pair of Card Sharps, Antique (Occupational?!) Tintype crane shaped sewing scissors 4 5/16" t x 4

4 5/16" t x 4 5/16" w x 2 1/2" d not including straps

and his athletes

with the silhouette of a feather at his forehead

This dates to the 1840s or so

Dapper Pair of Card Sharps, Antique (Occupational?!) Tintype crane shaped sewing scissors 4 5/16" t x 4I do believe that it is square cornered, no indices playing cards these two have tucked into the brims of their hats. And they look pretty wily, as though playing cards was a vocation rather than pastime.. but who knows? There is a deep scratch running down the surface of the tintype just to the left of the arm of the man standing, which makes it looks as if there were the arm of a chair there, which the man in the top hat is caught behind peeking out