Wonderful Antique Gem Tintype of Uncomfortable Looking Child with Mother's Hand bennington captures more of the real

captures more of the real drama of Victorian era life lived by the sea

which I think just adds to the appeal

signed what looks like Joan on the underside

Folded bottle caps for the ears

A few weeks ago

Wonderful Antique Gem Tintype of Uncomfortable Looking Child with Mother's Hand bennington captures more of the realI love a gem tintype something much more precious feeling about tiny things and this portrait of a very expressive and uncomfortably positioned child, with the large hand of her semi hidden mother wrapped around her, is all the better for its gem scale. For me, it is the blur of the mother's cropped face at upper right (feeling all the more shadowy elusive to the naked eye) that really makes this, making the mother seem almost like a ghost or spirit,