Strange Antique Photo with Child in White handmade face pot and also perhaps the contented

and also perhaps the contented look on his face

At some point small pads were added to the bottom

8 7/8" x 6 5/8"

I've had one other old toy mold in this shop similar in construction to this pig--which I just found along with what looks to be a tweety bird

The drawings were cut out and mounted to the black paper of old photo album

Strange Antique Photo with Child in White handmade face pot and also perhaps the contentedI had not made the association when I purchased this photo, but many of you responded to it by suggesting it was a post mortem photo, with deceased child at center. An expert who deals in mourning and funerary antiques tells me that posing a deceased child in this manner would be exceedingly rare; rather, children in post mortem photos would be posed in a very reverent manner. In any case, this child's layers of all white, setting her (I assume) in