The unidentified young child pictured in this cameo cdv portrait is laughing, unusual for a photograph of this era, as any movement would have made it difficult to avoid blurring.
The card design, Marion Imp of Paris, is of a type that Roger Vaughan (on his web site Date an Old UK Photograph) calls "Early Large Letter," with large ornate initial letters, a diagonal "signature," ivy in the background, and several fonts, and probably dates from the early 1880s. The thickish card, yellow card colour and rounded corners are also typical for this time frame.
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Macey sold his Blenheim studio in 1914 to WS Oakley who had previously operated Buntings Studio in Palmerston North according to an advertisement in the Marlborough Press of 19/12/1914
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