Figure 1.--We note a card showing Georgie Truman dated 1881. It was a light-colored card with a guilded border abd matching lettering. Notice the trucated stusio information at the bottom. |
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Gilded borders in America according to one source were only seen about 1884-85, but the date range seems somewhat wider. We have found earlier examples. Borders were more common with CDVs than cabinet cards, but we have found several dated cabinet cards with gilded borders. The width of the borders varied somewhat, but here we are talking about wide borders and not narrow lines. All we have found so far have rounded corners. As far as we can tell, this was an early- to mid-1880s style, but our number of dated examples is still quite small so we can not yet make any definitive assessment. We havebegun to archive dated examples. We note a card showing Georgie Truman dated 1881 (figure 1). It was a light-colored card with guilded matching lettering. And we notice another example of Frank and his brother from Iowa in 1885. The studio information on these gilded border cards seems somewhat truncated or some cases non-existent. The narrow chronological tome frame if we can confirm it will make this a very helpful characterisdtic in dating images.
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