Old Glass Plate Negative of Presumed Earlier Portrait of Woman in Lace silver and turquoise and even better in person

and even better in person

Such a lovely little pin

horsehair I assume

The top is threaded

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Old Glass Plate Negative of Presumed Earlier Portrait of Woman in Lace silver and turquoise and even better in personI love things that confuse me or make me question what I'm seeing, and I also images of other images, representing multiple degrees of remove. I believe this glass plate negative most likely documents an earlier photograph, frame and all; I am not a costume expert, but the fine lace and bodice make me think 1840s, while the glass plate negative did not come into common use until several decades later. One can just make out the flutter of her