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Posted: 27 May 2015

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Boy on Mast

Boy on Mast
"J. C. Stodart, Margate."

In this CDV, a boy looks somewhat uncomfortable as he perches on a studio version of the top of a sailing ship's mast. I'm not sure why a mast mockup like this was used as a studio prop, but perhaps it was popular in a seaside resort town like Margate, Kent. In any case, similar depictions of boys on masts appeared on advertising trade cards, postcards, and other media in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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 Indycaver (Norm)
Indycaver (Norm) club
Neat find! I'm not sure if he is comfortable, or not ... but he sure looks bored! :-)
9 years ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to Indycaver (Norm) club
Ha ha, he does look bored at that!
9 years ago.

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