Late 19th C. Him and Her Honeymoon Kodak Photos, Murray Hill Hotel, NYC turkey wing brush This lovely old checkerboard-type parquetry

This lovely old checkerboard-type parquetry egg-shaped finial surely once attached to something

" Rendered in an earthy palette of dark green and brown

as pictured--super minor

15" wide and deep

worked for the company for a time

Late 19th C. Him and Her Honeymoon Kodak Photos, Murray Hill Hotel, NYC turkey wing brush This lovely old checkerboard-type parquetryI think these are just fantastic. Written on the back of one is "Mrs. Lowrie Childs on wedding trip to NY Murry [sic] Hill Hotel," and so we can assume the other is of Mr. Childs, each of the two photographed separately sitting in their honeymoon room, him on the edge of the bed, she in the chair next to it. With the round format of the No. 1 Kodak prints framing each as if viewed through a scope or a peephole, these hold a tension between formality