https://www.ipernity.com/tag/aemays/keyword/21099 https://cdn.ipernity.com/p/101/45/66/288325.buddy.jpg https://www.ipernity.com/tag/aemays/keyword/21099 Tue, 26 May 2026 05:03:26 +0000 Tue, 26 May 2026 05:03:26 +0000 https://www.ipernity.com https://www.ipernity.com/doc/aemays/38345648 tag:ipernity.com,2015-05-27,doc-38345648 Wed, 27 May 2015 18:22:30 +0000 2015-05-27T14:22:30-04:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/aemays">Alan Mays</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/aemays/38345648"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/56/48/38345648.cb62acfe.240.jpg?r2" width="147" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">"J. C. Stodart, Margate."<br /> <br /> In this CDV, a boy looks somewhat uncomfortable as he perches on a studio version of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_(sailing_ship)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">top</a> of a sailing ship's mast. I'm not sure why a mast mockup like this was used as a studio prop, but perhaps it was popular in a seaside resort town like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margate" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Margate</a>, Kent. In any case, similar depictions of boys on masts appeared on advertising trade cards, postcards, and other media in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.</div> Boy on Mast <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/aemays">Alan Mays</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/aemays/38345648"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/56/48/38345648.cb62acfe.240.jpg?r2" width="147" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">"J. C. Stodart, Margate."<br /> <br /> In this CDV, a boy looks somewhat uncomfortable as he perches on a studio version of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_(sailing_ship)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">top</a> of a sailing ship's mast. I'm not sure why a mast mockup like this was used as a studio prop, but perhaps it was popular in a seaside resort town like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margate" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Margate</a>, Kent. In any case, similar depictions of boys on masts appeared on advertising trade cards, postcards, and other media in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.</div> Alan Mays