Beautiful Boys Playing Basketball Antique Real Photo Postcard white on white though it was found in

though it was found in Massachusetts

The patina on this beautifully carved small totem pole is fantastic

which I've just fallen in love with

and reaching their height of popularity in the mid-1800s

he's in generally good condition and structurally very sound with a bit of dryness/light cracking to the wood of his feet

Beautiful Boys Playing Basketball Antique Real Photo Postcard white on white though it was found inIm completely smitten with this photograph, especially that beautiful spare bentwood hoop poised so gracefully up in the sky, with the branch post to which it is somehow attached looking to have been stripped half way up leaving a pile of shavings below. And then these beautiful boys (Walter, Oscar and Elmer we learn on the reverse) two in motion, while the much taller older boy appears to be laughing as he eyes the hoop, ready to receive the pass and