Curious 19th C. Tintype of Handsome Pair, Shiny Pocket Watch (?) In Mouth gold painted school slate and also the sideward cast

and also the sideward cast of his brown eyes

and the Whitney Museum of American Art as well as many other collections

finely--and very laboriously

and acknowledge the marvelousness of

A bit of bumping to corners

Curious 19th C. Tintype of Handsome Pair, Shiny Pocket Watch (?) In Mouth gold painted school slate and also the sideward castThese two, what a pair. The look like fortune seekers out west during the gold rush era to me, brothers or best friends I'm not sure but clearly with great ease and affection between them, and one imagines they've shared, and will yet share, some great adventures between them. Wonderful faces (how very handsome especially the young man at left), wonderfully laid back postures, and I love the visual rhyme of their crossed legs. But what especially sold