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Posted: 24 Sep 2017

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Man's Portrait in Elaborate Border

Man's Portrait in Elaborate Border
A real photo postcard printed with a decorative mask. The scrollwork and flowers in the design of the mask make it look like an elaborate picture frame.

Deborah Lundbech, Smiley Derleth have particularly liked this photo

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 Deborah Lundbech
Deborah Lundbech club
Very elaborate indeed!
Were you part of the controversy on flicker - where one group swore that these scrolled borders were always mementos of deceased people and never just decorative, and the other group which agreed they were sometimes used for memorials but that they were also decorative?
I remember it got quite heated. : )
7 years ago.
 Alan Mays
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Thanks, Deborah! I believe I missed most of the controversy, but I'd have to say that borders like this on cabinet cards and real photo postcards were probably used for both the living and the dead. Hope that's not too controversial. 8-)
7 years ago.
 Deborah Lundbech
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I think that that was the general consensus at the end, although there were certainly bitter diehards. : )
7 years ago.

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