Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush school excercises which is what I think

which is what I think I'd do (one might need to add a little hardware to the back at the top)

The wheels do turn by hand but it doesn't really roll

with each letter the first letter in a German phrase

and shows age toning--I believe it likely early 20th century

all to the good I think

Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush school excercises which is what I thinkI 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