Antique Hand-painted Full Plate Tintype, Woman with Pink Rose and Feathered Hat brutalist but lots of charm

but lots of charm

absent a name but dated "1921 or 62" on the cover

Dry finish

Structurally sturdy and sound with no splits or other issues and just wonderful

I always look at old branding irons when I come across them

Antique Hand-painted Full Plate Tintype, Woman with Pink Rose and Feathered Hat brutalist but lots of charmThis 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