Beautiful Boys Playing Basketball Antique Real Photo Postcard mission style planter I found these hanging side

I found these hanging side by side on a wall and they just struck me as beautiful things to display that way--the long necks of the swans together forming an upside down heart with front sides facing

and the inside pages with charming hand-colored engravings are in fair shape

I'd be pretty confident there were once many more of these figures and related bits

and how wonderfully cozy they

Beautiful Boys Playing Basketball Antique Real Photo Postcard mission style planter I found these hanging sideIm completely smitten with this photograph, especially that beautiful spare bentwood hoop poised so gracefully up in the sky, with the branch post to which it is somehow attached looking to have been stripped half way up leaving a pile of shavings below. And then these beautiful boys (Walter, Oscar and Elmer we learn on the reverse) two in motion, while the much taller older boy appears to be laughing as he eyes the hoop, ready to receive the pass and