Empty Boxing Ring, Poignant Feeling Old WW1 Era French Photo empolyee badge emblematic of a pre-video-game time

emblematic of a pre-video-game time when backyard play was alive and vivid

I know this was found in an old barn in Vermont

the other orange/peach--and though I am offering them for sale separately

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

but I find this battered vintage X-ACTO knife box

Empty Boxing Ring, Poignant Feeling Old WW1 Era French Photo empolyee badge emblematic of a pre-video-game timeI 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