Beloved Max, 1938 (in Handmade Frame and Very Folky Interior) blue and white swirl Somewhat mysteriously

Somewhat mysteriously

I like the idea of this antique souvenir being used to mark places for future journeys in a giant world atlas

The blade is marked with a "2" but I see no other marks

which stand on a flat base

the caption is simply Vologne (in those beautiful block letters) and the title of the opera is handwritten at upper left

Beloved Max, 1938 (in Handmade Frame and Very Folky Interior) blue and white swirl Somewhat mysteriouslySweet Max. It is a sort of celluloid film rather than glass over the photo here, which has aged some, lending a bit of a yellow tinge to the image. But there was still no way I could resist this 1938 photo of clearly beloved canine with his name written for posterity on the mat that surrounds him. (It appears the frame was custom made to memorialize him, too, with no easy way of taking it apart.) The rest of the photo is interesting too, with what