Arthur Florence, Photo of Photo, RPPC with Shield Shaped Corner Mount Flourishes old cast iron a bit hard to read

a bit hard to read but the year--1880--is clear

Lots of portraits of people in the gardens of Paris

stable and clean and dry and not shedding any paint

with surface wear all over and a bit of paper loss

bold blue-black and green star-like decoration--all of it exactly matches Mann's other work (including another bowl I had in the shop)

Arthur Florence, Photo of Photo, RPPC with Shield Shaped Corner Mount Flourishes old cast iron a bit hard to readThis one makes me very happy, for many reasons, including for the fact of it appearing to be a photograph of an earlier photograph of a young Arthur Florence (the framing around him is all part of the photo, it is only the shield shaped paper mounts that are pasted on top and his name written in ink.) As such, this image of Arthur Florence, and Arthur Florence himself, seem all the more beloved (and with those paper corner mounts reading very much