Hand-tinted CDV Photo of Young Odd Fellow/Mason with Sword (and Semi Veiled Chair!) green grasshopper pin and a few tiny white

and a few tiny white spots

A little wear to the fabric on the bottom corner of the spine

It opens smoothly and closes tight

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

Hand-tinted CDV Photo of Young Odd Fellow/Mason with Sword (and Semi Veiled Chair!) green grasshopper pin and a few tiny whiteOld 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