Strange Baby: Hand-painted Antique Full Plate Tintype trimming tool There may be a mark

There may be a mark at the center of the underside but it is hard to tell

much loved condition

and one patch of wear to the fabric on the back of one legs (see photos)

Hard not to feel deeply empathetic toward this guy

in substance and even more so in implication and application

Strange Baby: Hand-painted Antique Full Plate Tintype trimming tool There may be a markI've been paying more attention to hand painted folk art tintypes of late, and this one is exactly why wonderfully strange! I do think the face on this baby looked a little like the face of an old man to begin with, but the painted blue eyes very much contribute to it, and the pinking of those downturned lips, too. And then these wonderful graphite drawn hands, like little paws resting on a big belly! With charming white painted lace collar and cuffs,