Empty Boxing Ring, Poignant Feeling Old WW1 Era French Photo empolyee badge I started to dig into

I started to dig into it--there are a number of different names that appear

and that this brush was for cleaning the spokes of an old bike

which appears to read Parker and Wood on front and perhaps a note about location on the back

I am not sure the maker of this vintage pottery vase--signed "Handmade in Norway" and numbered on the bottom--but am sure it date to the mid 20th c

I know this was found in an old barn in Vermont

Empty Boxing Ring, Poignant Feeling Old WW1 Era French Photo empolyee badge I started to dig intoI found this photograph along with a photograph on a blown out building interior taken in Rheims, France during WW1 just after a German bombing listed last week I believe this, like that, is the work of a French photojournalist, and that this is of the same decade. For me there is something very potent about the spare, very essentialist feeling construction of a boxing ring like this, all the more so for being empty, and empty here during wartime I