Memory Ware Jug with Pair of Tintype Portraits, c. Early 20th century microscopic 7 3/4" long and in

7 3/4" long and in very good condition

and with the end tip of the wood actually being a plug that pulls out

It is in such pristine condition it looks as if it might have been done yesterday

Certainly it takes a certain sort of person to look at this one and think its one of the most beautiful things in the world--but here we are

were produced by sensitizing a polished silvered copper plate with iodine vapor

Memory Ware Jug with Pair of Tintype Portraits, c. Early 20th century microscopic 7 3/4" long and inWhile I appreciate them, I don't usually go for memory jugs; somehow they tend to feel a bit too cumbersome, or messy, or clunky, or something, to me. But I fell for this one, of just the right scale for my taste, and with what I find a very satisfying feeling of resolve and succinctness to it. Lots embedded in it to discover, including many sorts of buttons, a bennington marble, a bisque baby head (and a leg elsewhere too), a soldier tobacco tag, a