Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype club with each darning beginning as

with each darning beginning as a cut/puncture to the cloth

but looks a bit more Art Deco in style to me

3 1/4" l x 1 1/2" w x 1" t and in very good antique condition

most of them pretty fussy

) With a unique combination of decorative chipped carved elements on each side

Young Man and Old Woman on Park Bench with Amazing Faces, Antique Sixth Plate Tintype club with each darning beginning asI keep saying, and will keep saying, to me there is just something about a good tintype that is like nothing else, making the subjects feel so present and right there, and often feeling both transcendent of time and very contemporary. This one has a bit of a Diane Arbus feeling about it to me, with such striking, distinctive and expressive faces on these two, a grandmother and grandson perhaps, who it feels like a street photographer might just have