Haunting 1860s Sixth Plate Ambrotype of Headless Civil War Soldier mine magdalene Really wonderfully done

Really wonderfully done

Found on the same day as the unhappy dog doorstop I just listed

I am just completely charmed by it

Sight: 9 1/2" x 7 11/16

And I have not been able to find another like him out there anywhere

Haunting 1860s Sixth Plate Ambrotype of Headless Civil War Soldier mine magdalene Really wonderfully doneA very dark thing for certain, and to me quite a poignant one. I believe this is an ambrotype, and certainly its is a Civil war soldier in Union uniform captured in the image, whose head, through some combination of damage and the effects of time, I assume just chance occurrence, appears transformed into a cloud of smoke. About as haunting a portrait, and portrait of the effects of war, as I might imagine. Sold as found in case (missing opposite side)