Magical Hand-colored Sixth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of PA Folk Art Identified Portrait Painting game design (It looks to me like

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Carved into the sides of the box are three animals--a mule on front

Its black bottom is a bit of a mystery--I think there was once a black pad adhered to the underside

Mounted to backing/scrapbook paper with an old print on reverse

and features lined pages for the front section with alphabetical tabs

Magical Hand-colored Sixth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of PA Folk Art Identified Portrait Painting game design (It looks to me likeCompletely wonderful and really quite magical feeling, this is a mid 19th c. hand colored ruby ambrotype of a portrait painting, the subject of which a handwritten note on the inside of the case identifies as a young Sarah Ann Sheibley, painted by her school teacher at the Sheaffer School: a Samuel Weidler Jr. A bit of searching turns up a several Sarah A. Sheibleys of Pennsylvania, and a few Weidlers who were teachers, and I believe the Sheaffer