Haunting 1860s Sixth Plate Ambrotype of Headless Civil War Soldier mine magdalene Sight: 9 1/2" x 7

Sight: 9 1/2" x 7 11/16

The top is threaded

This lovely little olive wood snuff box was purchased in France years ago

the species name no longer exists

And I have not been able to find another like him out there anywhere

Haunting 1860s Sixth Plate Ambrotype of Headless Civil War Soldier mine magdalene Sight: 9 1/2" x 7A very dark thing for certain, and to me quite a poignant one. I believe this is an ambrotype, and certainly its is a Civil war soldier in Union uniform captured in the image, whose head, through some combination of damage and the effects of time, I assume just chance occurrence, appears transformed into a cloud of smoke. About as haunting a portrait, and portrait of the effects of war, as I might imagine. Sold as found in case (missing opposite side)