19th Century Folk Art Portrait Drawing Daguerreotype, Man with Bright Eyes wooden bits but I just couldn't pass

but I just couldn't pass her by

I was pretty excited to find a box full of these handmade slides at the flea market this weekend--a box in which many were rolled up in a St

brass wire beautifully wraps both the horizontally running bristles that form the handle and attached bunches of bristles that hang down perpendicularly

5" tall x 2 3/4" widest diameter

like this silver cat pin

19th Century Folk Art Portrait Drawing Daguerreotype, Man with Bright Eyes wooden bits but I just couldn't passThis one I purchased from the same seller as the daguerreotype of the drawing of the child I just listed, and I believe they came from the same collection, this one also mid 1800s I believe. This image too is of what looks like a graphite drawn portrait in profile, here of a man perhaps in his 30s or so. There is some scratching to the plate and the outline of this gentleman's profile almost disappears, but in the right light it comes into clear view,