Antique Hand-painted Full Plate Tintype, Woman with Pink Rose and Feathered Hat vintage wax mashed potatoes taped around the perimeter

taped around the perimeter

and which someone cared enough to salvage

It's got a thick

what a fantastic shelf

The smallest

Antique Hand-painted Full Plate Tintype, Woman with Pink Rose and Feathered Hat vintage wax mashed potatoes taped around the perimeterThis 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