Beloved Max, 1938 (in Handmade Frame and Very Folky Interior) blue and white swirl a broad-brimmed hat with tasselated

a broad-brimmed hat with tasselated strings which was worn by Catholic clergy (until its banning in 1969)

maybe added at a later date

the caption is simply Vologne (in those beautiful block letters) and the title of the opera is handwritten at upper left

including a couple of gold griffins perched on high in the background

which would read in full "Pat'd June 17

Beloved Max, 1938 (in Handmade Frame and Very Folky Interior) blue and white swirl a broad-brimmed hat with tasselatedSweet Max. It is a sort of celluloid film rather than glass over the photo here, which has aged some, lending a bit of a yellow tinge to the image. But there was still no way I could resist this 1938 photo of clearly beloved canine with his name written for posterity on the mat that surrounds him. (It appears the frame was custom made to memorialize him, too, with no easy way of taking it apart.) The rest of the photo is interesting too, with what