Homemade Antique Stereoview of White Horse Ledge / Echo Lake, NH antique still life I'd use this exquisite cup

I'd use this exquisite cup and saucer on my birthday

becoming at least as much  about their object hood as the image they portray

-- and quite poignant now: Liberty gives life its highest value

There is no mark on this old catcher's mask that I can find

Homemade Antique Stereoview of White Horse Ledge / Echo Lake, NH antique still life I'd use this exquisite cupI love this double image formally, with perfectly round mound (White Horse Ledge, we know from a handwritten note on reverse, an 800 foot cliff in the White Mountains of New Hampshire) and its mirror reflection in the lake (aptly named Echo Lake) looking like the earth itself on the horizon. Times two. And then at right is what looks a bit like a person fishing at the edge of land, or like a small lean to sort of structure, its a bit hard to tell. To