19th C. Ambrotype of Striking (and haunting) Man in Half Case David Heger pot 11" x 6 3/4"

11" x 6 3/4"

perhaps in southern Maine

The stopper turns 360 degrees

The ground of the interior is glazed a perfect matte dark green-black

19th C. Ambrotype of Striking (and haunting) Man in Half Case David Heger pot 11" x 6 3/4"My first impression of this ambrotype was to think what a striking looking man, but the more closely I study it, the more he appears as if he might just be devoid of life. Perhaps this is just the effect of that very angular face, and eyes that have been touched with black paint at the centers, such that the windows into his soul are voided! A bit of a strange mouth too, tinted pink, and looking as if just closed around a canary. I find him, and the