Wonderful Antique Gem Tintype of Uncomfortable Looking Child with Mother's Hand old painting g what a great portrait this

what a great portrait this is

the leather bottle has really nice age and wear to it

one of a good number of drawings of his I purchased together

took a pledge of total abstinence and  met once a week to listen to lectures and participate in activities

and I believe it is an "ink eraser

Wonderful Antique Gem Tintype of Uncomfortable Looking Child with Mother's Hand old painting g what a great portrait thisI love a gem tintype something much more precious feeling about tiny things and this portrait of a very expressive and uncomfortably positioned child, with the large hand of her semi hidden mother wrapped around her, is all the better for its gem scale. For me, it is the blur of the mother's cropped face at upper right (feeling all the more shadowy elusive to the naked eye) that really makes this, making the mother seem almost like a ghost or spirit,