Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush school excercises First photo shows them all

First photo shows them all together in accurate proportion to one another

and shows age toning--I believe it likely early 20th century

with each letter the first letter in a German phrase

I can't look at it without thinking of pressed sea moss albums

The wheels do turn by hand but it doesn't really roll

Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush school excercises First photo shows them allI just can't get over how contemporary a super spare full body antique tintype portrait like this one feels and how completely present the subject thereby seems, as if one could oneself walk straight into the frame and touch him. Even better to find that starkness in an occupational photo, here with this painters profession distilled down to a drippy paint can and brush in hand. And with a clear line of white paint stain running straight across the