Intense Looking Woman with Lighthouse, Beautifully Spare and Stark Antique Tintype cardboard box with one small tear along

with one small tear along the top

Don't miss the view from the bottom either--a star of sorts painted in yellow/orange

Few things feel as purely good to me as a big box of unsharpened yellow pencils

Kits like this were often produced as advertising give aways--this one is stamped "Fred M

Intense Looking Woman with Lighthouse, Beautifully Spare and Stark Antique Tintype cardboard box with one small tear alongThis is the sort of tintype portrait I love most: stark looking subject, spare (and also quite painterly) sort of image. Here with just the edge of a lighthouse (a painted backdrop I assume) making it into the frame. Some sort of apron (?) stretched across her lap, wedding ring exposed on those long fingers, cloth in the other hand. She looks a bit like a bird, and also makes me think of both Emily Dickinson and Georgia O'Keefe. 3 3 16" x 2 3 8".