Antique Hand-painted Full Plate Tintype, Woman with Pink Rose and Feathered Hat old whimsy Box measures 3 3/4" cubed

Box measures 3 3/4" cubed

5 5/8 x 3 9/16 and in good condition

now nicely faded but with darker red around the perimeter

and just the sort of early theorem painting I am always wanting to find

Pennsylvania I am certain

Antique Hand-painted Full Plate Tintype, Woman with Pink Rose and Feathered Hat old whimsy Box measures 3 3/4" cubedThis one is much better in person the intensity of her blue green painted coat is really rather otherworldly. I never paid a whole lot of attention to painted tintype portraits before, but recently found a few in the collection of an artist near me (which was also the source of the Mexican fotoculturas I've recently sold and some charcoal photo portraits I have yet to list, too) and I've become quite taken with them. The flat, matte gray ground really