A Girl and Her Falcon, Excellent 1902 Cabinet Card, Haverhill, MA hand painted postcard 24 inches long

24 inches long

Wonderfully worn

I picked these three photographs out of a pile at the flea market yesterday because I thought they were really interesting--kind of like pre-Instagram still lives of assorted and carefully arranged antique objects

or re-papered

They come from a scarce 1808-10 work "Conchyliogie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles

A Girl and Her Falcon, Excellent 1902 Cabinet Card, Haverhill, MA hand painted postcard 24 inches longI love this photo so much. Including for the fact that this young girl looks quite petrified, even while keeping her arm wrapped squarely around the back of this large falcon! Certainly it is a stuffed one, kept in the photographer's studio as a prop but the fact of it seeming to all involved like a apt prop for our girl makes me like it all the more. Perfectly executed! As mounted: 7" x 6". Photo itself: 4 7 8" x 3 3 4". All in good condition, with