19th C. Folk Art Painted Full Plate Tintype of Stern Looking Couple with Bible (in Large Hand!) brass claw feet bookends I just love the rendering

I just love the rendering of all of these very particular surgical tools together

beautiful thing

It is Alaskan Inuit/Eskimo

but the rose and pink rose and bouquet in a basket on the others make for a nicely rounded trio

The lid is well attached (but be a bit gentle with it)

19th C. Folk Art Painted Full Plate Tintype of Stern Looking Couple with Bible (in Large Hand!) brass claw feet bookends I just love the renderingI've been eyeing antique painted tintypes like this one lately which I think have a wonderfully surreal sort of strangeness to them so was very happy to find this one at an estate near me this week. A very nice example too, I think, strange feeling indeed, between his hair and beard and her large hands not feeling quite of her body. With what I take for a bible in her hand, painted red and certainly they look like a devout pair! Nice gold painted