Rare Four Image Large Plate Antique Tintype of Baby antique studio photos with a bit of dark

with a bit of dark spotting here and some rippling to the linen

plus a nice warm patina--I'd guess it's a hundred years old or so

I have removed a little wax and there is some blackening to the interior/around the rim of the candleholder just visible on the back side (see photos

I imagine this sweet woodblock was carved by a member of a boy scout troop in the 1940s or so

Rare Four Image Large Plate Antique Tintype of Baby antique studio photos with a bit of darkI'm not at all a photography expert, and even less expert on early photographic processes, but I would guess this antique tintype was most likely made with a four lens camera, which came into use for studio portrait photography in the 1860s or so. The only challenge to this theory is that I believe those "Bon Ton" cameras produced four simultaneous images using only one shot, and here each image of this baby appears slightly different, as if an