19th C. Tintype Portrait of Man with Mustache, Pink Cheeks and Perfectly Knotted Tie kurt naef featuring a worker with horse-drawn

featuring a worker with horse-drawn cart

which includes two large lacemaking spools

which this bowl perfectly exemplifies in the interplay of solid forms

and have not found another out there like it

and seems perhaps to intersect with an S

19th C. Tintype Portrait of Man with Mustache, Pink Cheeks and Perfectly Knotted Tie kurt naef featuring a worker with horse-drawnSo many boxes out there of tintype portraits to rummage through, which I do tend to do, and sometimes am just struck by one. I love soulful face on this guy, with deep brown eyes, and his wide, perfectly knotted neck tie, too, looking maybe like a banker, or a merchant of some sort, but not so much like the boss! And with the matte cream of the ground framing the oval portrait just the right thing. 3 3 4 x 2 1 2 and in very good condition, super crisp