Empty Boxing Ring, Poignant Feeling Old WW1 Era French Photo empolyee badge and that this brush was

and that this brush was for cleaning the spokes of an old bike

which appears to read Parker and Wood on front and perhaps a note about location on the back

one eighteen and one twenty

This is the second of two retablos I recently purchased from a dealer in Canada

I know this was found in an old barn in Vermont

Empty Boxing Ring, Poignant Feeling Old WW1 Era French Photo empolyee badge and that this brush wasI found this photograph along with a photograph on a blown out building interior taken in Rheims, France during WW1 just after a German bombing listed last week I believe this, like that, is the work of a French photojournalist, and that this is of the same decade. For me there is something very potent about the spare, very essentialist feeling construction of a boxing ring like this, all the more so for being empty, and empty here during wartime I