Dark and Moody Early Tintype of Two China Dolls and their Bed antique shaker horsehair brush with one spot of paint

with one spot of paint loss on the frame

but I think this plain one

fashioned of old crate wood showing a stenciled tea label on the underside of the top lid

Especially because of the oar she is holding (which makes me especially love this)

Dark and Moody Early Tintype of Two China Dolls and their Bed antique shaker horsehair brush with one spot of paintDoesn't get much moodier than this one, feeling almost like a post mortem of these two dolls! Early photographs of girls with their dolls are not too hard to come by, but much rarer to find portraits of dolls alone, and here a pair, both with painted porcelain heads and porcelain arms, but slightly different from one another (I'd call the one at left the older sister!) And with what looks like a doll bed behind them, which they are leaning up against.