Rare Four Image Large Plate Antique Tintype of Baby autumn The gold shows a little

The gold shows a little brighter or mellowed depending on how it is lit

which could sit on a tabletop or in a windowsill

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

with a bit of collage on top

features a pagoda in landscape and is very finely done

Rare Four Image Large Plate Antique Tintype of Baby autumn The gold shows a littleI'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