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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 352347, member: 33&quot;]It&#039;s funny you should ask about that, [USER=602]@Aquitaine[/USER] -- I&#039;ve just been reading the book that was given to me by Gila at Christmas. She was my Santa in the gift-giving drawing here on Antiquers. The book is about identifying and dating 19th century card de visite and cabinet card photos. (More info about the book here: <a href="http://www.phototree.com/book_card_photos.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.phototree.com/book_card_photos.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.phototree.com/book_card_photos.htm</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>Although I already knew some things, this book is teaching me a lot! The author has carefully studied photos with dates on them, and there is a page on which he talks about photos of this type. And coincidentally, I just read that page last night!</p><p><br /></p><p>He calls this type of mask put over a photo &quot;Trompe l&#039;oeil framing&quot; and he found that this type of treatment was done mainly from the very late 1880s through the early 1890s. He says that the time, this kind of framing was used a lot in posters, signs, and other art work.</p><p><br /></p><p>He also says that people often think this type of framing means that it was a memorial card, but he has found no evidence that that is the case in the photos he studied.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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