Pictorial Lens

nice - definitely has that "pictorialist" feel

Is this just the effect of the lens? It also reminds me a bit of those gum-bichromate pictures regularly passing by here on APUG.

Yes, just the lens. Probably why it was so hard to find one. I have a pair of negs taken along a creek. One was with this lens and the other was a pinhole (f/360). The only easy way to tell them apart is the effect of the running water due to the vast difference in exposure time. To me, what separates this lens from a lot of the soft portrait lenses is that the effects are consistent across the field of view. I just wish it was marked so that I could learn about its history.