REST, W.H. Swan, Ludlow Vermont c. 1880s Funerary Memorial Cabinet Card mushroom sculpture but I've not been able

but I've not been able to get it to engage

prosperity and rebirth to fruition

(I might think this drawing were a bit older than that

with smile turned up to one side

5 3/4" long x 1 1/16" wide x 5/16" thick

REST, W.H. Swan, Ludlow Vermont c. 1880s Funerary Memorial Cabinet Card mushroom sculpture but I've not been ablePerhaps in part because I was really tired when I found it, this one completely spoke to me! One does see a fair number of cabinet cards and stereoviews of funerary flower arrangements, but I think this is really a wonderful example, and rather a transcendent one too whatever the configuration of stand and pillow the memorial arrangement was set upon looks very much like a rocking chair to me, with the portrait mounted just at the spot where one might