Minnie! Signed 1872 Graphite Portrait with Miniature Portraits on Necklace and Earring handmade metal box usually tiered plant stands in

usually tiered plant stands in this manner

who originated I know not where

most others that I have found are stamped on the bottom

and really love this tiny one

with some truly gorgeous areas of detail that one might do all sorts of things with

Minnie! Signed 1872 Graphite Portrait with Miniature Portraits on Necklace and Earring handmade metal box usually tiered plant stands inI really really love this Minnie, who looks to me maybe 15 years old or so, both lovely and awkward and seeming right in the middle of coming into herself. I also love that this is something of a triple portrait, with miniature portraits at her neck and hanging from her ear. Wonderfully earnest and clearly invested with love, right down the carefully inked Spencerian "Minnie" at bottom center. Signed Ida J. Tracy at lower left and dated Feb 7, 1872 at