Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 antique carving folk art figure 10 7/8" x 8 7/8"

10 7/8" x 8 7/8" and in good condition

these feel not too difficult to master and great fun to spread out on the table

and some wear to the label

but certainly not a new one

1st half 19th c

Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 antique carving folk art figure 10 7/8" x 8 7/8"I know post mortem photos are not everyone's cup of tea, and not always mine, either, though I view them much more as tender and reverent than macabre. This one, pulled from the collection of an artist near me, I find both haunting and heartbreaking with a typed label on reverse identifying the two young men as brothers, drowned in Lake Gardner, Amesbury MA, in 1909. The framing of photograph, with the brothers lying side by side, wall papered wall