Perfectly Stark, Antique Tintype of Sensitive Looking Young Man antique portrait drawing as if to say 'don't

as if to say 'don't you dare try to take my lamb

particularly along left edge

With holes at the center of short sides for threading with a string to hang

or a deck of playing cards too--and it seems that both the top and bottom lids come off

It looks like the gold paint was painted (maybe not too long ago) over an older grayish green

Perfectly Stark, Antique Tintype of Sensitive Looking Young Man antique portrait drawing as if to say 'don'tI've got a special weakness for super stark and spare antique tintype portraits that thus feel very contemporary. This one is a case in point, and reminds me, including for the combination of intensity and vulnerability that seem to reside in this you mans gaze, of the work of Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra, which I very much love. Feels beyond time and also hyper present to me, very beautiful. C. 1870s. 2 x 3 1 4". General wear and aging, feeling