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Vintage Strunk Reading PA Couple Portrait Cabinet Card Photo 6x8 Sepia Orig
Original antique early 20th-century sepia gelatin-silver cabinet card photograph featuring a formal studio portrait of a couple.
The composition presents a woman standing beside a seated man, her hand resting lightly on his shoulder, dressed in a light ankle-length dress with layered skirt and bracelet, while he wears a dark three-piece suit, tie, and lace-up shoes, posed on an ornate carved chair before a draped curtain and painted window backdrop with a fur rug at their feet.
Printed in warm sepia tones on photographic paper, the image is mounted in vertical format on a gray embossed card mount with a raised rectangular panel and decorative scrollwork border surrounding the print.
The lower front margin of the mount bears the blind-embossed studio imprint The Strunk Studio 730 Penn St. Reading, Pa., the reverse is plain card without printed text, and a handwritten note visible in the listing images records the size as 6\" x 9\"; the piece is offered as a single original unframed cabinet card photograph only, with any brass display easel or other props visible in the listing photos shown for scale and presentation purposes and not included.
Condition: Original antique early 20th-century sepia gelatin-silver cabinet card photograph with typical handling and storage wear from age and use. Image surface displays overall warm age toning with a few scattered tiny dark specks and faint surface soil, while the photographic paper remains intact without tears or creases through the couple. Embossed gray mount shows minor edge and corner wear with slight rounding, several small spots, tiny abrasions, and faint smudges on the front and reverse, and light handling impressions; piece is offered as a single original unframed cabinet card photograph only, with any brass display easel or other props visible in the listing images shown for scale and presentation purposes and not included.
- Size: 6 x 8 in
- Material: Cardboard, Paper
