Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush winnowing Box measures 7 1/2" x

Box measures 7 1/2" x 4 1/4" x 1 1/8"

/ But yet methought

and then two crosses on either side drawn over top

one does want to be a bit careful handling it as there is quite a lot packed onto/into the surface

The hand-painted red stripes on these two completely delights me

Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush winnowing Box measures 7 1/2" xI just can't get over how contemporary a super spare full body antique tintype portrait like this one feels and how completely present the subject thereby seems, as if one could oneself walk straight into the frame and touch him. Even better to find that starkness in an occupational photo, here with this painters profession distilled down to a drippy paint can and brush in hand. And with a clear line of white paint stain running straight across the