Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child painted walnuts 13 1/4" t x 2

13 1/4" t x 2 1/4" w x 7/8" deep

My photos show four of the six images--with some recurrent characters from one to the next

with all those painted windows and port holes against creamy white

and for the fact that from one side especially it appears to have double eyes--one orange glass

carved bone alphabets

Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child painted walnuts 13 1/4" t x 2I'm forever on the hunt of early photographs of folk art paintings, and photographs of photographs, too (representations of representations, emblematic of the emergence of new modes of representation, and also emblematic of the want to preserve pieces of the past and carry them forward) and I believe this is both a tintype copy I'd guess of an daguerreotype or ambrotype of a painting of a young child. [The other possibility I suppose would be a