Him and Her, Striking Pair of 19th C. Hand-painted Photographs early bottle caps ” or the cocktail king

” or the cocktail king of Cuba) and for its expat clientele including very frequent visitor Ernest Hemingway

which I would guess is Cuban

around which her cotton bloomers are cinched (I have not tried to remove those

I think they're just so beautiful

Him and Her, Striking Pair of 19th C. Hand-painted Photographs early bottle caps ” or the cocktail kingThese, like the charcoal portrait also listed, combine photographic portraits with hand done (painted) enhancements there are lots of examples of these out there, but this couple struck me as especially striking. It is in part the black black of the black ink and its bleeding along the bottom edge that does it for me, and then also the very fine detailing of his reddish beard and hair, and her black hair (and blue eyes, too) every strand of hair