Old Glass Plate Negative of Presumed Earlier Portrait of Woman in Lace silver and turquoise 5 1/16" x 3" x

5 1/16" x 3" x 1 5/8" thick and in excellent condition

This one I believe is late 19th century and made of cotton flour sack type fabric

punctuated by colorful yellow

and even better in person

Buyers outside of the continental U

Old Glass Plate Negative of Presumed Earlier Portrait of Woman in Lace silver and turquoise 5 1/16" x 3" xI love things that confuse me or make me question what I'm seeing, and I also images of other images, representing multiple degrees of remove. I believe this glass plate negative most likely documents an earlier photograph, frame and all; I am not a costume expert, but the fine lace and bodice make me think 1840s, while the glass plate negative did not come into common use until several decades later. One can just make out the flutter of her