Figure 1.--This unidentified American boy wears a fancy Fauntleroy blouse with overalls. Notice the kepi cap and ringlet curls. Eather an unusual outfit. The studio was Withington in Danieson, Connecticut. The portrait was taken October 6, 1898. Notice the fancy wicker chair. We see a lot of portraits with this wicker around the turn of the 20th century. Often the wicker was painted white.

Grey comes in many different shades. We do not notice a lot of grey-colored mounts. We do not tecll seeing dark grey mounts. We do notice some light-grey mounts around the turn of the 20th cemtury. This seems related to other light-colored mounts that were popular at the time. The portrait with the light-grey mount here was taken in 1898 (figure 1).

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