Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 vintage ledger drawing (Research has turned up other

(Research has turned up other examples of these handles

more a sculpture than a carving

These two women look like they're having a good time

or an accountant--though I always root for surprises

with the main frame a sort of mellowed oxblood and the decorative frame a very mellow gold

Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 vintage ledger drawing (Research has turned up otherI know post mortem photos are not everyone's cup of tea, and not always mine, either, though I view them much more as tender and reverent than macabre. This one, pulled from the collection of an artist near me, I find both haunting and heartbreaking with a typed label on reverse identifying the two young men as brothers, drowned in Lake Gardner, Amesbury MA, in 1909. The framing of photograph, with the brothers lying side by side, wall papered wall