Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC carrying caddy with passages of stitches veering

with passages of stitches veering in different directions

all the better for the precisely painted little eyes

optimistic but not without some doubts and trepidation

This is a beautifully made

Different Lives, Early 20th C. Portrait of Two Men with Victorian Wicker RPPC carrying caddy with passages of stitches veeringI find this photograph very beautiful, and poignant I presume a father and son, though perhaps brothers, the elder in what appears to be the attire of a tradesman or laborer, the younger carefully groomed and wearing a pinstriped suit, suggesting very different sorts of lives and livelihoods but with their hands, side by side in similar positions, together gripping the same ornate Victorian piece of wicker furniture in front of them. A wonderfully