Antique VICTORIAN OVAL tiger tin frame M.B. PARKINSON 1897-1906 CUPID ASLEEP

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Antique VICTORIAN OVAL tiger tin frame M.B. PARKINSON 1897-1906 CUPID ASLEEP :
$38.00

Original antique oval tin frame houses original M. B. Parkinson, Morris Burke Parkinson, picture of Josephine Anderson.Picture also known as \"Cupid Asleep.\" Frame measures 1/2 inch deep and 7 x 5 oval. This is in excellent condition. Marked with 1897 copyright. See photos. \"Cupid Awake\" is also available in my listing. If you would like both and combined shipping please message me.

\"If you frequent antique shops, you’ve probably seen the sepia photographs pictured here. Cupid Awake and Cupid Asleep are their names. The photographer, M.B. Parkinson, worked in the New York City area during the latter part of the 1800s and early 1900s. His young model, Josephine Anderson, was the daughter of a friend, a single mother who worked and sometimes left her child in Parkinson’s care.

Josephine died in the 1970s.

Parkinson copyrighted his prints in 1897 and they were distributed by Taber-Prang Art Company of Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1908, The Ohio Art Company began selling metal picture frames in which the Cupid prints were displayed, some of them hand tinted. Sold at Kresge’s, Sears, and Woolworth’s, people bought the frames for the pictures. The Cupids were immensely popular and were seen in millions of homes across the country. In 1938, Ohio Art Company bought the copyright from Taber-Prang after their bankruptcy. Originally sold for a nickel or dime, the Cupid photos now command high prices, as much as $450 a pair in larger sizes.\" from Yesterdays Magazette By Madonna Dries Christensen- contributing editor

Like all my items this will be packed well to protect its’ integrity and is being sold as is.

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