A Dreadful Bore, Excellent Victorian Trade Card for Atlantic Garden "Temperance Resort", Danielsonville, CT antique spade pips yielding a WWI style triplane

yielding a WWI style triplane that I find a surprisingly elegant thing

No way could I resist this handsome fellow posing in his tight fitting trunks

I might get out of the way

Into one long edge on one side are the initials JEF

which is what makes it beautiful

A Dreadful Bore, Excellent Victorian Trade Card for Atlantic Garden "Temperance Resort", Danielsonville, CT antique spade pips yielding a WWI style triplaneI find the art of hand shadowing, or "shadowgraphy," a fantastic thing (and have been watching antique books illustrating it fetch high prices), so I jumped on this scarce Victorian trade card when I came across it. (Of course I also love puns.) And "Atlantic Garden" as "the only temperance amusement resort in town" is interesting too, with pool tables, shooting gallery and a first class lunch counter to boot. Danielsonville CT became Danielson in