Strange Baby: Hand-painted Antique Full Plate Tintype trimming tool homemade version

homemade version

Not an especially skillful carving

Hard not to feel deeply empathetic toward this guy

and one patch of wear to the fabric on the back of one legs (see photos)

Strange Baby: Hand-painted Antique Full Plate Tintype trimming tool homemade versionI've been paying more attention to hand painted folk art tintypes of late, and this one is exactly why wonderfully strange! I do think the face on this baby looked a little like the face of an old man to begin with, but the painted blue eyes very much contribute to it, and the pinking of those downturned lips, too. And then these wonderful graphite drawn hands, like little paws resting on a big belly! With charming white painted lace collar and cuffs,