Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant 1980s vase And then handy advice toward

And then handy advice toward the end

Quite a labor of love it was for someone to make these--I've had a few larger handmade tin architectures

pipe stem in order to put it to use

much aged and rusty but nut shedding

Exquisite Antique Tintype of Painting of Infant 1980s vase And then handy advice towardI'm not altogether certain how to untangle this one, but it appears to me to be a tintype photo of an earlier watercolor, I presume a portrait miniature but perhaps it is a tintype of a daguerreotype of a painting (??) And I love the mystery and ambiguity of it in many respects; while sharing qualities of post mortem daguerreotypes, where infants were carefully laid out in a similar manner here on what looks like a chaise, with a curtain draped behind