Surreal Looking Hand-painted and Faded 1900 Stereoview, "The Courtesy" civilization with no chips or cracks

with no chips or cracks at all that I can see

There is some cracking to the paint on the base

but all of the ones I can find other there are marked one way or another and this one is not

This one feels like the sun shining bright over ancient pyramids

Surreal Looking Hand-painted and Faded 1900 Stereoview, "The Courtesy" civilization with no chips or cracksThe caption here tells us its a Colonial era parlor scene, and it seems clear that the woman at the center of the image (with an insane looking bright red smile) is giving a curtsy (a courtesy), but the way in which the photographic image has faded while the painting over top has remained turns the whole thing quite surreal. (Which one might say this sort social ceremony was is to begin with!) There is also a woman in white in the background who keeps