Watchtower with American Flag, Poignant Old Real Photo Postcard carved bone hand as well as numbers 1

as well as numbers 1 through 9

The flattish sides are especially great

this lovely Winifred makes me think of Hester Prynne--and surely she too has a story to tell

The RMS Caronia was a British transatlantic steam ocean liner launched in 1904 and scrapped in 1932

as found: 23 3/4" x 19 1/4"

Watchtower with American Flag, Poignant Old Real Photo Postcard carved bone hand as well as numbers 1I tend to look at everything these days as metaphors, and certainly do this one a watchtower with windows on all sides (one might think of it as a surveillance station) flying an American flag. So it seems these days. And yet, the masking of the photo, creating the wide, soft cornered frame around the image, makes it seem as if the watchtower itself was glimpsed through some sort of window or scope and thus reverses the order of things: the surveilled