Surreal Looking Hand-painted and Faded 1900 Stereoview, "The Courtesy" civilization with no chips or cracks

with no chips or cracks at all that I can see

The metal cap of the bottle will screw off but the foil covered cork stopped is held tightly in place

with backs featuring a young Hawaiian woman with cards spread out in front of her and a lei around her neck

measures 11" tall and 8" across at widest

Surreal Looking Hand-painted and Faded 1900 Stereoview, "The Courtesy" civilization with no chips or cracksThe caption here tells us its a Colonial era parlor scene, and it seems clear that the woman at the center of the image (with an insane looking bright red smile) is giving a curtsy (a courtesy), but the way in which the photographic image has faded while the painting over top has remained turns the whole thing quite surreal. (Which one might say this sort social ceremony was is to begin with!) There is also a woman in white in the background who keeps