Beautiful Boys Wading, Old Snapshot Portrait antique personal slate perhaps ideally on the wall

perhaps ideally on the wall of an old school steakhouse

I believe was likely meant to rest an iron

as a centerpiece

Carved of walnut I believe and in good overall condition

” and as "an enthusiastic collector of railroad relics

Beautiful Boys Wading, Old Snapshot Portrait antique personal slate perhaps ideally on the wallThis is the second of two photographs of swimmers I purchased on a very sweaty day at Brimfield, but even in depths of winter I know I would have found this bunch too beautiful to resist and the clarity and range of tones in the photograph make it an especially striking one. Such a wonderful mix of gestures and postures among these young men, making it feel like nine individual portraits while also very expressive of their relationships with one