Ninth Plate Ambrotype Portrait of Woman with Braids and Aura! doorstop This is a 1937 first

This is a 1937 first edition copy

which can be rotated in relation to the pole

A little bit of roughness--not quite a perfectly sharp point--at the tip

allowing them to move to and fro--when raised above her head

It seems to me the uniforms could be c

Ninth Plate Ambrotype Portrait of Woman with Braids and Aura! doorstop This is a 1937 firstI think the more one looks at and for things, the more attracted to the effects of time and chance one becomes, which can make already singular things all the more so. I found a very potent image of a Civil War soldier several weeks ago, which had deteriorated such that it appeared his head had been shot off, and actually purchased this and one other I am listing now from that same seller, I think all three previously held in one collection. I believe