Antique Primitive Bevelled Glass Mirror in Original Dark Red Paint standing tintype frame I found a box of

I found a box of these old bone gambling chips and have become obsessed with them in the same way I'm obsessed with old clay marbles: I think they're just gorgeous as objects

My best guess is it is a portrait of a black woman

and those fantastic black dots that vary a bit in size from side to side and sometime come right up against the edges

a plastic mesh hat

Royer and dated 1893

Antique Primitive Bevelled Glass Mirror in Original Dark Red Paint standing tintype frame I found a box ofPhotos don't really capture the full character or color on this old handmade frame with its original square bevelled glass mirror, but I think it's really a beauty. The paint stain is a dark, sort of oxblood red and the mirror perfectly distressed from age but still reflective. Nothing on it ever touched I don't believe, with crusty accumulation in the corners. Found in New Hampshire and of New England I'm sure. Just shy of 8 x 8 x 3 8. Perfectly aged