Hand-tinted CDV Photo of Young Odd Fellow/Mason with Sword (and Semi Veiled Chair!) green grasshopper pin It opens smoothly and closes

It opens smoothly and closes tight

make for quite a sweet token of fondness

It has a bit of a different quality on either side--one showing darker the other a little rustier red

but I am not really certain how old this piece is

Hand-tinted CDV Photo of Young Odd Fellow/Mason with Sword (and Semi Veiled Chair!) green grasshopper pin It opens smoothly and closesOld photos strike me for all sorts of different reasons most often, with portraits, it is because I find the subject highly empathetic! That's very much the case with this hand colored CDV of a young fellow identified on verso as C. Eshelman (I think likely Charles Emory Eshelman, 1867 1940, of Pennsylvania, as was the photographer. C. B. Tinker, printed on the back.) T The neck sash is Odd Fellows, or at least of some fraternal order, and I like the