Soulful Woman in Lace Bonnet, C. 1850s Cased Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Portrait antique prop camera but this is really a

but this is really a lovely old cut paper hand

Dated (incised) '65 on the underside of the base with what looks to be an indecipherable signature

4 1/3" x 2 2/3"

I am sure there were once two of them

but overall he's in fine shape

Soulful Woman in Lace Bonnet, C. 1850s Cased Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of Folk Art Portrait antique prop camera but this is really aFound in Maine this week the latest in my ongoing pursuit of early photographs of folk art paintings, created as one means of capturing likenesses gave way to another, and emblematic of the want to carry things, and people, forward. (I think of such things as akin to digitally scanning old 35 mm slides, or digitizing VHS tapes the problem persisted as technology progressed!) And what a soulful looking woman she appears to me, lovely but looking as