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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
I don't want to burst any bubbles, but it looks like a photo (possibly albumen?) of an already existing hanging framed photo, which was then trimmed and pasted to a photo studio mount.
Couldn't say exactly when it was made, but I'd guess late 1910's to early 1920's.
Still pretty cool, but I sense it's a really old (hopefully), fantasy piece.
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These were most of my immediate thoughts as well, but this is not my area of the hobby. Didn't wish to be like so much of the internet and weigh in with an opinion lacking in true knowledge. It was only a logical observation on my part, but nice to hear I wasn't alone in the thought.
But, since I'm replying, I would ask what others better versed than me think about a couple of things:
--Does the photo not look sloppily pasted atop a cabinet backing?
--Does the cabinet backing itself look super fresh to anyone else's eye? (This could obviously be easily forgiven, as so many of these rested in albums for over a century, barely touched.)
--It's been my observation that much more pride and care was taken in
everything back then to have allowed for such a sloppy cut job on the photo. Those wavy, hand cut edges just wouldn't fly in period quality control, would they?!
I would love to see this thing examined under a VSC. I wonder if the choice of a black cabinet backing was done on purpose in an effort to help obscure anything that may be/may have originally been on the cabinet behind the photo.
Again, I loathe opining on anything unless I'm more knowledgeable in the subject matter, so please take my words as observational in nature only.