Arthur Florence, Photo of Photo, RPPC with Shield Shaped Corner Mount Flourishes old cast iron orange and yellow

orange and yellow

which I don't think is original

I think the execution could not be better: no fuss but in its matter of fact way a bit poetic too

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

Lots of portraits of people in the gardens of Paris

Arthur Florence, Photo of Photo, RPPC with Shield Shaped Corner Mount Flourishes old cast iron orange and yellowThis 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