Can I get help identifying this old photo please?

[splendidgoodtidings]

 

 

[sonomabarn67]

I'll just bet that black plaque says something on it. What about on the back? Anything there?

[melda58]

What's written on the small dark strip in the first photo? Even with enlarging and filters I can't make it out but it looks like there may be letters or numbers.

Rita

[lacemaker3]

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@melda58 wrote:

What's written on the small dark strip in the first photo? Even with enlarging and filters I can't make it out but it looks like there may be letters or numbers.

Rita

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I agree, I can't make anything out either.

Link to full-size image: https://community.ebay.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/670442i4A1ED2F063D8257D/

[argon38]

I enlarged it - it's just numbers, not all that helpful:

[maxine*j]

It must be an at least moderately well known marble statue of a shepherdess, to rate a nice photo like that, but I can't find it.

[argon38]

34 16

[argon38]

I can't help feeling she has a vaguely Germanic look.

[maxine*j]

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@argon38 wrote:

I can't help feeling she has a vaguely Germanic look.

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She does to me too, because of the the braids, the costume, the sturdy figure.  It's nice work, too.

[sonomabarn67]

It's a 19th cent font that is seen on labels

[maxine*j]

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@argon38 wrote:

34 16

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It's probably just my failing eyesight, but I see a 5 instead of a 3.  Or at least part of the time I do.  It sort of alternates between the two numerals.   Not that it's likely to help, one way or the other.

[sonomabarn67]

It's a 3 but you're right, it doesn't matter. Unless it's a speed limit sign.

[sonomabarn67]

I just wanted to add that in the 19th cent when museums did official photos of items in their collections they would use numbering tags that looked like what is seen here,

[maxine*j]

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@sonomabarn67 wrote:

I just wanted to add that in the 19th cent when museums did official photos of items in their collections they would use numbering tags that looked like what is seen here,

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True, and many still do that, but how very odd that a museum accession photograph would end up in a nice oval frame.  Confounds me.

[argon38]

We still don't know if there is anything on the back.