Figure 1.--This new style cabinet card has elaborate frraming. It is undated but the photographer, the U.S. Studios, changed their format over time. The studio began operating about 1907. This portrait was robably taken during World War I. Beginning about 1914 the U.S.A. Studios began printing "London & Provinces" on their mounts as can be seen here.

We see some mounts with elaborate framing. And here we so not just mean framing lines like we saw with early CDVs and cabinet cards. Rather we see differeht texture areas amd even an embossed frame that looks like a real frame. There were a vurtually infinite number of ways that these different framing apliques and approches could be organized on a card. Sone of these mounts seem to reduce the image to kess than half of the surface area of the card. The example we have is a brown mount. And the image itself might have a white border. Sizes varied. We note one 3 x 5 in card which was smaller than the classic cards. Some of thee mounts have so much framing that the image is less than half the surface area of the card. Here we see an example of a mount with elaborate framing taken in the 1910s (figure 1)

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