SOLD Make Do: Ninth Plate Tintype Portrait of Striking Young Woman in Calico Dress with Tight and Tender Old String Wrap pottery trivet 5" t x 4 1/8"

5" t x 4 1/8" w x 5/8" d and in very good condition

Photograph 5 5/8" x 3 11/16"

kept by a Harry S

and then a full list of the colors on the reverse sides with pricing category codes

but to my eye a wonderful and evocative one--and the inked lettering spelling out Shut Open Open just makes me swoon

SOLD Make Do: Ninth Plate Tintype Portrait of Striking Young Woman in Calico Dress with Tight and Tender Old String Wrap pottery trivet 5" t x 4 1/8"I'm very tempted to keep this one for myself because I really love the sense of presence and appearance of this woman (face to hair to collar to dress to belt), and also, especially, because I love the old string wrap holding the layers of mat and glass and photo together having lost the foil wrap "preserver" that would once have done so, and the case it was surely once housed in too. The string repair is old, with corrosion corresponding to its