Rare Four Image Large Plate Antique Tintype of Baby autumn There is little dust inside

There is little dust inside the "arms" and general light wear

This is a lovely hand-thrown bowl by studio potter Frank C

with a bit of collage on top

especially based on the name Mitsi as well as the use of "yo" for your

The three green posts look rather like pencils

Rare Four Image Large Plate Antique Tintype of Baby autumn There is little dust insideI'm not at all a photography expert, and even less expert on early photographic processes, but I would guess this antique tintype was most likely made with a four lens camera, which came into use for studio portrait photography in the 1860s or so. The only challenge to this theory is that I believe those "Bon Ton" cameras produced four simultaneous images using only one shot, and here each image of this baby appears slightly different, as if an