Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman luminous and a second cutout diamond

and a second cutout diamond where the inlay appears to have been lost

which I would keep on the counter to flip when needing to make a simple choice or determine who has to unload the dishwasher or take out the trash or whatever (the higher roll winning

The slide top is a bit clunky but works fine and holds snugly closed

but surely this could be used for that as well

Ethereal Early Framed Silhouette Portrait Photograph of Older Woman luminous and a second cutout diamondI love the ambiguity of this image, which I believe is a CDV that was scallop cut along the bottom before being mounted to the card, c. 1865. What is interesting to me about it is how the quality of the image to begin with combined with its aging over time make it feel very close to to a cut paper silhouette, and also almost as if it were a photograph of a statue, though details like the eyelashes and locks of hair surely point the former. Ultimately