Magic Halo Antique Ambrotype, Young Girl in Calico Dress old iron shooting target 6 1/8" in diameter

6 1/8" in diameter

with some toning around the perimeter and a little foxing along the left edge

I do really like here how a very drippy

and at least a hundred years old I believe

finds his way back to him

Magic Halo Antique Ambrotype, Young Girl in Calico Dress old iron shooting target 6 1/8" in diameterI'm really into the effects of degradation that can emerge on ambrotypes and daguerreotypes over time, often feeling as if revealing something about the interior life (of after life!) of the subject. This I think is a very nice example, with bluish halo like ring perfectly following the oval of the frame above this young girl, and then exactly tracing the the hem of her skirt below to me looking as if encircling her in order to beam her up, while her