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This American cabinet card was tinted. This was not all that common for cabinet cards. The image suggests that the sailor suit was brown. But this was becuse this was the easiest to tint. More likely the suit and cap were blue. It significantly added to the cost of the portrait. The boy wears a knee pants sailor suit with stripes every wear. Strips on the collar were if not standard, very common. This boy in addition to the collar has stripes on the blouse front and sleeves as well as his knee pants. Note that thee is a white collar and small floppy bows in addition to the sailor collar. There also looks to be a vest. But what is really interesting is the cap he is holding. We have sbsolutely no idea just what this cap was. We are not sure what it would have looked like if he was crually wearing the cap. The cap was cerainly not a sailor style. The boy looks to be be about 12 years old. The portrait is not dated, but the mount edge pinking enables us to date it to about 1890, more definaively 1888-1895. The long stockings and high-top shoes were fairly standard. The studio was DeWitt in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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