Early 9th Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting of Young Chlld with Hat and Mirror antique french The stacked layers that ends

The stacked layers that ends in points are in the form of hearts

and make one (me) think it would be pretty fun to introduce some secret codes into daily life

going back and forth working hard to capture all the details

Photos document first one

I assume) lived in Berlin during WWII

Early 9th Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Painting of Young Chlld with Hat and Mirror antique french The stacked layers that endsThe person I purchased this early ninth plate daguerreotype of a folk art painting of young child speculated that both painting and, likely the daguerreotype, too, were done by Erastus Salisbury Field (1805 1900), an itinerant folk portrait painter primarily active in the 1830's, who traveled throughout western Massachusetts and the Connecticut Valley. In about 1841, Mr. Field moved with his family to Greenwich Village, NYC, where he opened a studio,