Man with Thick Mustache and Wallpaper (and Third Eye?), Wonderful Antique Mounted Photo carved balancing figure underlining "Handmade" for emphasis

underlining "Handmade" for emphasis

and this example embodies exactly why--wonderfully strange

surrounded by neat grids of other trees

It's a folio that appears to have been distributed to high school teachers in 1938

Man with Thick Mustache and Wallpaper (and Third Eye?), Wonderful Antique Mounted Photo carved balancing figure underlining "Handmade" for emphasisSuch a wonderful face, and an especially excellent mustache, but for me its very much the whole of the image here the patterns of the wallpaper behind him, and the way the light lands on the wall, and the formal rhyme between the sharp folds and "V" of his collar and the curl of his mustache above, almost like mirror reflections of each other. And then this curious dot at the center of his forehead, I honestly can't tell whether a birthmark or a