Figure 1.-- This English CDV shows an unidentified family--a very proud beared father with his two children. At first glance it looks like two daughters. They look to be azbout 6-10 years old. Both children are wearing identical patterned dresses with lace collats and waist sash. They are long-sleeved plain dresses witn what looks like embriodered bnds on the lower skirt. The faces and short hair look rather boyish, but at this age faces can be deciving. And girls also had shirt hair, although it usually covered or at least touched on part of the ears. As the family is not identified, all we have to go is the image. We think that the oldr child must be a girl because of the age nd he flower basket. The younger child may also be a girl, but we are less certain here.

This English CDV shows an unidentified family--a very proud baming and beared father with his two children. At first glance it looks like two daughters. They look to be azbout 6-10 years old. Both children are wearing identical patterned dresses with lace collats and waist sash. They are long-sleeved plain dresses witn what looks like embriodered bnds on the lower skirt. The faces and short hair look rather boyish, but at this age faces can be deciving. And girls also had shirt hair, although it usually covered or at least touched on part of the ears. As the family is not identified, all we have to go is the image. We think that the older child must be a girl because of the age and the flower basket. The younger child may also be a girl, but we are less certain here. The child looks very boyish. And rather than a flower basket there is a ball. Now while a girl could be pictired with a ball, it was more common for boys. And in addition there is a larger ball at their feet. The portrait is indated, but looks like the 1870s to us. So many balls in a portrait of girls is rather unusual. There is no studio information on the mount.

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