Sixth Plate

HIS LOW TIE! Either the tough hombre had a very long neck or a very low-cut shirt collar. This was about the most exposed flesh I have ever seen between a piece of knotted fabric and the bottom of a subject?s chin. If someone was so daring, to try and run fingers through his coarse hair, they might have come away with abrasions! That was a thousand-yard stare folks. His wimpy moustache seems incongruous to the fellow?s serious nature. The mold spiders and faint spots are superfluous. The lad was taken on a retaped sixth plate by a Philadelphia operator. ?Hutchinson Daguerreotypist? was steam pressed on the purple pad inside the repaired leather case.