Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush school excercises I think these have quite

I think these have quite a bit of age to them--there is craquelure and a wonderful warmth to the varnished surfaces--perhaps with the bookend bases added later

I can't look at it without thinking of pressed sea moss albums

The wheels do turn by hand but it doesn't really roll

which is what I think I'd do (one might need to add a little hardware to the back at the top)

Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush school excercises I think these have quiteI just can't get over how contemporary a super spare full body antique tintype portrait like this one feels and how completely present the subject thereby seems, as if one could oneself walk straight into the frame and touch him. Even better to find that starkness in an occupational photo, here with this painters profession distilled down to a drippy paint can and brush in hand. And with a clear line of white paint stain running straight across the