Fine Cigars, Saturday Evening Post, Man in Roseville/East Orange, NJ Train Station Waiting Room, 1899 Sepia Print waves with bulb handles on either

with bulb handles on either end which make me think it was made to be a rattle

for holding small fish used to catch large ones

though also completely worthy of framing should one be so inclined

of which this is I think a terrific example

Fine Cigars, Saturday Evening Post, Man in Roseville/East Orange, NJ Train Station Waiting Room, 1899 Sepia Print waves with bulb handles on eitherThis is a relatively small photograph, dated 1899 on reverse, but if one needed to precisely recreate the interior of a turn of the century train station waiting room, this would be all that one would need, right down to specific signage and inventory of papers and publications being sold. Wonderful richness of detail, including what looks like a lively conversation going on between the station master and another man at far right, light spilling in