Beautiful Boys Wading, Old Snapshot Portrait antique china doll leg The box is stamped Phang

The box is stamped Phang Kim Tjoeng and Banka Blinjoe on the bottom

locating him in Grenoble and describing the scene to his dear niece as a Danse Macabre

but am interested in ones that are distinctive and were personalized in one way or another

and then these shiny silver shapes (aluminum I believe

6 1/4" long x 7/8" thick

Beautiful Boys Wading, Old Snapshot Portrait antique china doll leg The box is stamped PhangThis is the second of two photographs of swimmers I purchased on a very sweaty day at Brimfield, but even in depths of winter I know I would have found this bunch too beautiful to resist and the clarity and range of tones in the photograph make it an especially striking one. Such a wonderful mix of gestures and postures among these young men, making it feel like nine individual portraits while also very expressive of their relationships with one