SOLD Make Do: Ninth Plate Tintype Portrait of Striking Young Woman in Calico Dress with Tight and Tender Old String Wrap asian vase in great shape

in great shape

but it's pure perfection to me--just the sort of punch paper embroidery I'm always looking for

I've photographed just one piece of the roof on its platform with a block behind to keep it pitched in first photo

as if reaching to touch--or in opposite directions

SOLD Make Do: Ninth Plate Tintype Portrait of Striking Young Woman in Calico Dress with Tight and Tender Old String Wrap asian vase in great shapeI'm very tempted to keep this one for myself because I really love the sense of presence and appearance of this woman (face to hair to collar to dress to belt), and also, especially, because I love the old string wrap holding the layers of mat and glass and photo together having lost the foil wrap "preserver" that would once have done so, and the case it was surely once housed in too. The string repair is old, with corrosion corresponding to its