Pair of Young Brick Layers Flanking Their Work, Terrific Antique Occupational (Apprentice?) Mounted Photo carve beaver with wear to the book

with wear to the book but holding together fine

each 1 5/8" x 3/4" x 3/8" d and in good

one of a kind I feel sure (not done according any pattern)

11 5/8" long x 10 7/8" tall x 3 1/4" at widest

he's no less than a king

Pair of Young Brick Layers Flanking Their Work, Terrific Antique Occupational (Apprentice?) Mounted Photo carve beaver with wear to the bookNothing makes me happier than exemplifications of pride in good, hard work, and I might guess this fireplace was the most ambitious bricklaying effort completed by these two young men to date, who look quite fresh in their coveralls, trowel in the hand of one (the other I imagine just outside the frame.) Perhaps young apprentices, or bricklaying students, I am not sure; there is a bit of handwriting on the reverse but it is hard to decipher. Very