Three Men, One Reading Newspaper, Unusual Antique Sixth Plate Tintype signed print You have to look close

You have to look close

though with two wires poking out underneath her paper skirt she could be mounted to something again

with moons or suns in between

with some old clay grout still clinging to one edge

While it reads as black in these photos

Three Men, One Reading Newspaper, Unusual Antique Sixth Plate Tintype signed print You have to look closePretty rare to come across a tintype with a newspaper in it, and this one is in such crisp focus one can almost read the headlines! Not quite sure what all is going on between these three, but the uniform of the man standing at center suggests a train conductor or captain which seems logical, perhaps with the two seated men assuming their typical postures on board. And seems perhaps there is some pertinent news in the paper to which our man in uniform