1862 Beaver Wyk Albumen Photo

[Leon]

The photo came in. It's on paper stock like the page, with the die cut picture, was in an album before. You can see the albumen in the photo under magnification... My 2nd oldest baseball item. Very happy to add it to my eclectic collection... btw, it's not crayon

Originally Posted by dbrown

The coloring looks like it could be period, 1860s. There's lots of examples of very crude hand-coloring, especially on paper prints, especially by amateurs. (The daguerreotype colorists were much better!)

for example:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1448496...de-visite-hand

But if it smells and feels like crayon, it's crayon.