Marvelously Weird Cabinet Card "Boudoir Photo" of Girl with Wand and Armored Statue antique police alarm 10 3/4" t x 4

10 3/4" t x 4 3/4" w (with bird) x 3 7/8" d

which I believe would have been used for hunting (impaling) frogs

Plus an abstract pattern on the reverse side

imparting her with a sense of quiet

but it's the flip side that is the really special one to me

Marvelously Weird Cabinet Card "Boudoir Photo" of Girl with Wand and Armored Statue antique police alarm 10 3/4" t x 4This girl! Quite a curious vision in her ringlets and flounces and hair flowers and magic wand in hand looking as if about to head to a ball with the statue who stands beside her, a miniature knight in shining armor as her date! What makes it ever weirder is that the stamp on the back of the card labels it as a boudoir portrait as if this awkward young thing were meant to be a seductress.. Makes me wonder about that Zeph Magill! Wonderfully weird. 8 1