Strange Inner Glow: Evocatively Degraded Ninth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of Baby antique wooden posts plenty of paint loss and

plenty of paint loss and separation of halves

Both made very similar baskets

And what a marvelous little building it is

It is signed LOHMAN on the right side of the back side

Hardback with leather spine and corners

Strange Inner Glow: Evocatively Degraded Ninth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of Baby antique wooden posts plenty of paint loss andSuch 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,