Wonderful Antique CDV Photo Portrait with Homemade Hand-drawn Mount yarn winder in bottle Day of McLean

Day of McLean

There are three long pieces of wood with four soldiers each

These old stamp art creations always amaze and amuse me--such resourcefulness

1930s or so I believe

but none of the sides look more recently cut than any of the others

Wonderful Antique CDV Photo Portrait with Homemade Hand-drawn Mount yarn winder in bottle Day of McLeanI purchased this from a seller in England, and know it came from a collection relating to the Arkwright family, who lived at Hampton Court Castle, Hereford from the early 1800s through 1912. (A quick google turns up a lot about them and lots of photos of that marvelous castle!) I believe it is a carte de visite albumen photo, which was given a custom mount, framing this young womanwith quite the necklace!in an ink drawn window, gazing out. Pretty