Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC carrying caddy and with a nice warm

and with a nice warm dry wood patina as well

what an amazing set they would have made

with passages of stitches veering in different directions

optimistic but not without some doubts and trepidation

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

Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC carrying caddy and with a nice warmI 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