Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 vintage ledger drawing (Research has turned up other

(Research has turned up other examples of these handles

with hand-painted paper label

3 1/2” l x 1 5/8” w x 2” t and in very good condition apart from lost tusks with a few irregularities in the stone as documented

with the main frame a sort of mellowed oxblood and the decorative frame a very mellow gold

Blocks are 1 1/8" cubed

Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 vintage ledger drawing (Research has turned up otherI know post mortem photos are not everyone's cup of tea, and not always mine, either, though I view them much more as tender and reverent than macabre. This one, pulled from the collection of an artist near me, I find both haunting and heartbreaking with a typed label on reverse identifying the two young men as brothers, drowned in Lake Gardner, Amesbury MA, in 1909. The framing of photograph, with the brothers lying side by side, wall papered wall