Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 vintage ledger drawing 9 3/4" tall with lid

9 3/4" tall with lid x 8" diameter at widest

or the carved decoration and diamond and spade shaped keyholes on the back of the chairs

3 1/2” l x 1 5/8” w x 2” t and in very good condition apart from lost tusks with a few irregularities in the stone as documented

although to die is hard

Joseph and Alfred Managhan, Drowned Brothers, Amesbury MA, 1909 vintage ledger drawing 9 3/4" tall with lidI know post mortem photos are not everyone's cup of tea, and not always mine, either, though I view them much more as tender and reverent than macabre. This one, pulled from the collection of an artist near me, I find both haunting and heartbreaking with a typed label on reverse identifying the two young men as brothers, drowned in Lake Gardner, Amesbury MA, in 1909. The framing of photograph, with the brothers lying side by side, wall papered wall