Magic Halo Antique Ambrotype, Young Girl in Calico Dress old iron shooting target A very charming shelf-sitter

A very charming shelf-sitter

Great just to prop somewhere but easy to add a hanging hook to the back

and at least a hundred years old I believe

most useful relative to this one

75" long x 1 3/8" wide x  1

Magic Halo Antique Ambrotype, Young Girl in Calico Dress old iron shooting target A very charming shelf-sitterI'm really into the effects of degradation that can emerge on ambrotypes and daguerreotypes over time, often feeling as if revealing something about the interior life (of after life!) of the subject. This I think is a very nice example, with bluish halo like ring perfectly following the oval of the frame above this young girl, and then exactly tracing the the hem of her skirt below to me looking as if encircling her in order to beam her up, while her