19th Century Folk Art Portrait Drawing Daguerreotype, Man with Bright Eyes wooden bits like this silver cat pin

like this silver cat pin

brass wire beautifully wraps both the horizontally running bristles that form the handle and attached bunches of bristles that hang down perpendicularly

The ground is a great rich yellow mustard and the blacks are nice and bold

copper and bronze plating

19th Century Folk Art Portrait Drawing Daguerreotype, Man with Bright Eyes wooden bits like this silver cat pinThis one I purchased from the same seller as the daguerreotype of the drawing of the child I just listed, and I believe they came from the same collection, this one also mid 1800s I believe. This image too is of what looks like a graphite drawn portrait in profile, here of a man perhaps in his 30s or so. There is some scratching to the plate and the outline of this gentleman's profile almost disappears, but in the right light it comes into clear view,