Dapper Pair of Card Sharps, Antique (Occupational?!) Tintype antique Mexican mask also listed today

also listed today

) I believe it is a carte-de-visite albumen photo

A sweet little handmade

front sides only

) at right

Dapper Pair of Card Sharps, Antique (Occupational?!) Tintype antique Mexican mask also listed todayI do believe that it is square cornered, no indices playing cards these two have tucked into the brims of their hats. And they look pretty wily, as though playing cards was a vocation rather than pastime.. but who knows? There is a deep scratch running down the surface of the tintype just to the left of the arm of the man standing, which makes it looks as if there were the arm of a chair there, which the man in the top hat is caught behind peeking out