Dark and Moody Early Tintype of Two China Dolls and their Bed heirloom 1 5/8" t x 1

1 5/8" t x 1 5/8" d x 2 1/8" across at handle

12 x 4“ x 1/2” painted on plywood

I think it is really a beautiful thing

as seems just right

” And at the end a morning hymn and two pages of instruction about never putting anything off for tomorrow that one can do right now

Dark and Moody Early Tintype of Two China Dolls and their Bed heirloom 1 5/8" t x 1Doesn't get much moodier than this one, feeling almost like a post mortem of these two dolls! Early photographs of girls with their dolls are not too hard to come by, but much rarer to find portraits of dolls alone, and here a pair, both with painted porcelain heads and porcelain arms, but slightly different from one another (I'd call the one at left the older sister!) And with what looks like a doll bed behind them, which they are leaning up against.