Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC carrying caddy I love the fact that

I love the fact that making these represented not just a burgeoning interest in the natural world

and with a nice warm dry wood patina as well

with the rust creeping up toward those trusty and official looking capital white letters

The backs of these terrific old tramp art frames--late 19th or early 20th century I believe--are almost as great as their fronts

This is a beautifully made

Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC carrying caddy I love the fact thatI find this photograph very beautiful, and poignant I presume a father and son, though perhaps brothers, the elder in what appears to be the attire of a tradesman or laborer, the younger carefully groomed and wearing a pinstriped suit, suggesting very different sorts of lives and livelihoods but with their hands, side by side in similar positions, together gripping the same ornate Victorian piece of wicker furniture in front of them. A wonderfully