19th C. Folk Art Painted Full Plate Tintype of Stern Looking Couple with Bible (in Large Hand!) man with afro Between 1790 and 1830 Betruch

Between 1790 and 1830 Betruch printed the "Bilderbuch für Kinder"

The key still works to open and close it easily

almost tissue weight

17 3/4" l x 4 1/2" t

I find this Fraktur type watercolor an extremely lovely thing

19th C. Folk Art Painted Full Plate Tintype of Stern Looking Couple with Bible (in Large Hand!) man with afro Between 1790 and 1830 BetruchI've been eyeing antique painted tintypes like this one lately which I think have a wonderfully surreal sort of strangeness to them so was very happy to find this one at an estate near me this week. A very nice example too, I think, strange feeling indeed, between his hair and beard and her large hands not feeling quite of her body. With what I take for a bible in her hand, painted red and certainly they look like a devout pair! Nice gold painted