Cased Sixteenth Plate Early Tintype Portrait of Soulful Looking Man in Hat buoy and while I don't always

and while I don't always jump on carved whimsy chains these days

but if so not much

allowing this swan to crane its neck in various directions

but also together

Cloth is light and easy to pin up tautly with just 3 or 4 pins

Cased Sixteenth Plate Early Tintype Portrait of Soulful Looking Man in Hat buoy and while I don't alwaysThis one is very much about the whole package for me the very small case, with the gold trim around the interior edges and embossed flower on the exterior, and then his very tightly cropped, mugshot like face. Of the scale and manner made to be carried around close to one's heart during the subject's long absences in order to keep them very close and not to forget what they look like!:) Or so I imagine. Feels very immediate and also very dear. 2" x 1