19th C. Tintype Portrait of Man with Mustache, Pink Cheeks and Perfectly Knotted Tie kurt naef And on the front

And on the front

and this one from WWII-- designed for practicing two arm Semaphore and International Morse Code

made of tin with this great wooden lid with simple

and on the reverse of the painting Ivory  describes having sailed on it in 1892 to Hong Kong by way of Cape Horn

and seems perhaps to intersect with an S

19th C. Tintype Portrait of Man with Mustache, Pink Cheeks and Perfectly Knotted Tie kurt naef And on the frontSo many boxes out there of tintype portraits to rummage through, which I do tend to do, and sometimes am just struck by one. I love soulful face on this guy, with deep brown eyes, and his wide, perfectly knotted neck tie, too, looking maybe like a banker, or a merchant of some sort, but not so much like the boss! And with the matte cream of the ground framing the oval portrait just the right thing. 3 3 4 x 2 1 2 and in very good condition, super crisp