Standing, with Tall Hat and Pink Cheeks, Spare and Painterly Antique Tintype middlesex england I am not certain of

I am not certain of their age and don't have the knowledge to translate their meanings

caught by chance in an image of something else

likely where a mirror once sat

and he is otherwise in great shape

I think they're really great looking (and feeling) bowls

Standing, with Tall Hat and Pink Cheeks, Spare and Painterly Antique Tintype middlesex england I am not certain ofI often use the word painterly to describe tintypes that have a poetic sort of spareness and tonal richness to them I'm not totally sure how to articulate it, but it's a particular sort of beauty, and distinguishes them from the bulk of tintype portraits one finds. Anyway, whatever it is, this for me embodies it. The crisp rake of that cloth draped table edge, coming in from the right, and how it echoes the cross of his leg, and the way that old