Rare Four Image Large Plate Antique Tintype of Baby autumn And I like that the

And I like that the inlay pattern on this one is not exactly regular or predictable--perfectly imperfect

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which could sit on a tabletop or in a windowsill

This is a lovely hand-thrown bowl by studio potter Frank C

The three green posts look rather like pencils

Rare Four Image Large Plate Antique Tintype of Baby autumn And I like that theI'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