Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush school excercises all to the good I

all to the good I think

the one at left a wooden post and silver painted metal sign with "Look Out RR Crossing For Cars" carved into it and no base (it will stand on its own on a flat surface)

and shows age toning--I believe it likely early 20th century

which is what I think I'd do (one might need to add a little hardware to the back at the top)

Spare and Beautifully Concise Antique Occupational Tintype: Painter with Bucket and Brush school excercises all to the good II just can't get over how contemporary a super spare full body antique tintype portrait like this one feels and how completely present the subject thereby seems, as if one could oneself walk straight into the frame and touch him. Even better to find that starkness in an occupational photo, here with this painters profession distilled down to a drippy paint can and brush in hand. And with a clear line of white paint stain running straight across the