Strange Inner Glow: Evocatively Degraded Ninth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of Baby miniature shoe with laces who I'm very sad seems

who I'm very sad seems never to have chosen one to give back to our Emily

is quite old

are joyfully drawn stars and faces and lines

and wear around the edges as pictured

dating to the 1940s I am pretty certain

Strange Inner Glow: Evocatively Degraded Ninth Plate Ruby Ambrotype of Baby miniature shoe with laces who I'm very sad seemsSuch a strange one! This is an foil wrapped, uncased 19th c. ruby ambrotype which, over time, has been transformed in what I find a quite evocative and rather otherworldly way, as if revealing this child's inner light (or its being consumed from within by a pear shaped ectoplasmic blob!) I especially love how the hand at left seems to grip and press into the side of the glowing form. There is no backing aside from a taped perimeter and the foil wrap,