Rare Four Image Large Plate Antique Tintype of Baby antique studio photos plus a nice warm patina--I'd

plus a nice warm patina--I'd guess it's a hundred years old or so

MA in 1876 as a patented medicine called Moxie Nerve food and went on to become one of the first mass-produced soft drinks in the U

I don't know who made them

he has drawn a caricature of himself on the reverse side

The drawing measures about 7 3/4" x 5"

Rare Four Image Large Plate Antique Tintype of Baby antique studio photos plus a nice warm patina--I'dI'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