Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child painted walnuts A bit of spotting on

A bit of spotting on her face and body

13 1/4" t x 2 1/4" w x 7/8" deep

true jet black of those gorgeous spades

and for the fact that from one side especially it appears to have double eyes--one orange glass

and dots her nose as well

Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child painted walnuts A bit of spotting onI'm forever on the hunt of early photographs of folk art paintings, and photographs of photographs, too (representations of representations, emblematic of the emergence of new modes of representation, and also emblematic of the want to preserve pieces of the past and carry them forward) and I believe this is both a tintype copy I'd guess of an daguerreotype or ambrotype of a painting of a young child. [The other possibility I suppose would be a