Antique Five Photo Portraits Card with Hair Lock vintage pacido disk These two document oats growing

These two document oats growing in pulverized rock and water

especially where the lines of one section cross over top of the section that frames her face

I found these at an estate sale loaded to the gills with a lifetime's accumulation of all manner of things

The seal is inscribed with two sets of numbers on his underside--the first set crossed out and a second set -- 35759--below them

Antique Five Photo Portraits Card with Hair Lock vintage pacido disk These two document oats growingThis both charmed me and made me laugh when I found it the former due to the lock of hair, the latter to the five portraits, which make it easy to imagine either a parent or the photographer forcing hats and bonnets upon this child and coaxing out various expressions. Rather an unusual one as far as I have found, and with the brown lock of hair still tightly wound and secure. 6 3 8" x 4 3 16. A couple of the photos show small crinkles if closely