Strange Baby: Hand-painted Antique Full Plate Tintype trimming tool or the two short ones

or the two short ones were opposite ends of one piece and the longer one has lost a link on the opposite end

with this fabulous engraved woman with great face and arms raised overhead

Hard not to feel deeply empathetic toward this guy

homemade version

Strange Baby: Hand-painted Antique Full Plate Tintype trimming tool or the two short onesI've been paying more attention to hand painted folk art tintypes of late, and this one is exactly why wonderfully strange! I do think the face on this baby looked a little like the face of an old man to begin with, but the painted blue eyes very much contribute to it, and the pinking of those downturned lips, too. And then these wonderful graphite drawn hands, like little paws resting on a big belly! With charming white painted lace collar and cuffs,