Figure 1.--Here we see an Anglish caninet card portrait of an unidenified family. Weymouth was a popular tourist siute, so we are not even sure they were from Weymouth. The portrait is not dated, but the mothers puffed sleeve dress is very strong evidence that it was taken in the 1890s. The specific style looks like about 1895. The studio was W.G. Dovey in Weymouth.studio was

Dark green was one of the popular colors used for cabinet card mounts. It was one of several dark colors used. It may have been the most common of the dark colors based on prevalence, but we can not yet confirm that. Our initial assessment is that these dark colors as a group were most common in the 1870s and 80s. This is largely based on our more substantial American assessment as we do not yet have many dated British cabinet cards. We have found one dark green card which we can reliably date to about 1895. We can not yet say, however, if this was common or an outlyer. As in America, whitish colored cards like white, ivory, cream seem much more common kin the 1890s.

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