Strange Inner Glow: Evocatively Degraded Ninth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of Baby little mouse bringing her back a sack

bringing her back a sack full

The seam along the left side of his head was reinforced with black thread at some point

with a couple of splits from shrinkage/expansion on the back side

His pads and shin guards and glove are all pretty great too

sturdy and stable with good  age to her

Strange Inner Glow: Evocatively Degraded Ninth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of Baby little mouse bringing her back a sackSuch a strange one! This is an foil wrapped, uncased 19th c. ruby ambrotype which, over time, has been transformed in what I find a quite evocative and rather otherworldly way, as if revealing this child's inner light (or its being consumed from within by a pear shaped ectoplasmic blob!) I especially love how the hand at left seems to grip and press into the side of the glowing form. There is no backing aside from a taped perimeter and the foil wrap,