Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child old carved box leaf and bird design may

leaf and bird design may the most exquisite among them

I am not about to break them up now so am selling as a set

Even better when they have a hole at top for hanging

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

Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child old carved box leaf and bird design mayI'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