Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child old carved box I found another of these

I found another of these Grenfell Mission letter openers a few years ago and have kept a keen out out for another ever since--because they are rare

Very good for swatting still or just hanging on the wall

painterly surface from the side

looking herself intense in her devotion

Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child old carved box I found another of theseI'm forever on the hunt of early photographs of folk art paintings, and photographs of photographs, too (representations of representations, emblematic of the emergence of new modes of representation, and also emblematic of the want to preserve pieces of the past and carry them forward) and I believe this is both a tintype copy I'd guess of an daguerreotype or ambrotype of a painting of a young child. [The other possibility I suppose would be a