Antique Post Mortem Glass Plate Negative with Baby and Mother James bone drawing A few nails and some

A few nails and some tape hold the mirror in place

also known as spellicans

they are in excellent shape

and all the rarer in great working shape with key

though once you've held this in your hand it may be fairly hard to part with

Antique Post Mortem Glass Plate Negative with Baby and Mother James bone drawing A few nails and someA beautiful, moving glass plate negative post mortem photograph, with the expression on the face of the mother (best seen in digital positive) just devastating. The casket itself is shrouded in fabric, and the hands of the child clasped before her as she lies. My photos of this are not great (not scanned, just photographed in my own makeshift way, yielding some red along one edge in one photo and some uneven lighting), but the image appears sharp and