Perfectly Stark, Antique Tintype of Sensitive Looking Young Man bentwood bowl and I interpret the image

and I interpret the image as a woman's face in profile

with the coasters measuring 4 3/4" in diameter

I'm really not certain

Each measures 12 1/4" tall x 3 1/4" wide and deep

suggesting that this is the way Rosey ought to take him to a dance

Perfectly Stark, Antique Tintype of Sensitive Looking Young Man bentwood bowl and I interpret the imageI've got a special weakness for super stark and spare antique tintype portraits that thus feel very contemporary. This one is a case in point, and reminds me, including for the combination of intensity and vulnerability that seem to reside in this you mans gaze, of the work of Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra, which I very much love. Feels beyond time and also hyper present to me, very beautiful. C. 1870s. 2 x 3 1 4". General wear and aging, feeling