SOLD Meat Market, Bakery, Presumed Photographer's Tent, Historically Notable Colorado Gold Rush Era Mounted Photo by David Lamon froggy Another in my never-ending collection

Another in my never-ending collection of whimsies

which makes the rendering feel all the more of another world

Also there is what looks to me like a drawing on the underside of the lid

Signed Jose C

SOLD Meat Market, Bakery, Presumed Photographer's Tent, Historically Notable Colorado Gold Rush Era Mounted Photo by David Lamon froggy Another in my never-ending collectionI think this is a stunner, and also a historically notable document, about which I have done some piecing together of information that leads me to believe (exciting to me!) that it captures the convergence of photographer David Lamon and prospector, capitalist and philanthropist Winfield Scott Stratton, who made his fortune in gold mining in and around Cripple Creek, Colorado with one of the area's rich gold veins apparently discovered by none other