and it just completely leapt out to me
It looks to me that our woman in magenta and orange is potting or tending to a plant
it's well worn
Really a very beautiful and from all I can tell very rare thing
and a bit of irregularity to one long edge from where it was cut out from the album
1860s Gem Tintype Album, 28 + 2, with Sailors, Soldiers, Sisters, Wounded, From Jaffrey, NH Estate bocce ball and it just completely leaptThis is the first gem tintype album I've purchased, from a dealer who just pulled it out of an old estate in Jaffrey, NH. I do look at these sorts of albums, and do find the tiny ness of gem tintypes rather amazing, but usually, with one close up portrait of unknown person after another, they don't strike me as super compelling. (On my mantle, however, I have a single gem tintype of a man seated in a chair in a simple contemporary frame that is one of