Rare Four Image Large Plate Antique Tintype of Baby drawing of saw and screw with a less noticeable spiral)

with a less noticeable spiral)

showing everything from club foot

square edged

Very good condition with a little loss of the creamy white paint here and there

which I purchased from a dealer at a flea market who said they had come from an estate he had just cleaned out in Maine (and from which he also had some old crocks and 19th century photographs

Rare Four Image Large Plate Antique Tintype of Baby drawing of saw and screw with a less noticeable spiral)I'm not at all a photography expert, and even less expert on early photographic processes, but I would guess this antique tintype was most likely made with a four lens camera, which came into use for studio portrait photography in the 1860s or so. The only challenge to this theory is that I believe those "Bon Ton" cameras produced four simultaneous images using only one shot, and here each image of this baby appears slightly different, as if an