Rare Four Image Large Plate Antique Tintype of Baby autumn Signed Acoma N

Signed Acoma N

especially based on the name Mitsi as well as the use of "yo" for your

There is little dust inside the "arms" and general light wear

which could sit on a tabletop or in a windowsill

And I like that the inlay pattern on this one is not exactly regular or predictable--perfectly imperfect

Rare Four Image Large Plate Antique Tintype of Baby autumn Signed Acoma NI'm not at all a photography expert, and even less expert on early photographic processes, but I would guess this antique tintype was most likely made with a four lens camera, which came into use for studio portrait photography in the 1860s or so. The only challenge to this theory is that I believe those "Bon Ton" cameras produced four simultaneous images using only one shot, and here each image of this baby appears slightly different, as if an