Glass Plate Crack Across Lonely, Flooded Rural Scene, Antique Cyanotype Printed from Broken Plate cat cards (Typically billiards and pocket billiards

(Typically billiards and pocket billiards sets contain 15 marked balls plus a shooter

So here we begin with the famous opening line: "Arma virumque cano" ("I sing of arms and the man")

Photos document a few favorites then all pages in order

And though a bit hard to tell

just classic

Glass Plate Crack Across Lonely, Flooded Rural Scene, Antique Cyanotype Printed from Broken Plate cat cards (Typically billiards and pocket billiardsThis one made me very happy to find a mounted cyanotype paper print, c. late 19th early 20th c. I believe, printed from a cracked glass plate negative. Capturing a desolate feeling rural landscape view, which looks to have flooded, judging from what I take for a wooden fence running toward the center from either side. Such that the crack feels quite apt, damage upon damage, while also animating in the image in what I find quite a beautiful way. And