Strange Baby: Hand-painted Antique Full Plate Tintype trimming tool cheese making board

cheese making board

and one patch of wear to the fabric on the back of one legs (see photos)

or the two short ones were opposite ends of one piece and the longer one has lost a link on the opposite end

Not an especially skillful carving

There may be a mark at the center of the underside but it is hard to tell

Strange Baby: Hand-painted Antique Full Plate Tintype trimming tool cheese making boardI've been paying more attention to hand painted folk art tintypes of late, and this one is exactly why wonderfully strange! I do think the face on this baby looked a little like the face of an old man to begin with, but the painted blue eyes very much contribute to it, and the pinking of those downturned lips, too. And then these wonderful graphite drawn hands, like little paws resting on a big belly! With charming white painted lace collar and cuffs,