1907 Print Venice Italy Bucintoro Boat Gandola Ascension Marriage Adriatic XGTB4 Holland (The Netherlands) a precision optics grinding craftsman

a precision optics grinding craftsman at Spencer Lens

This is a small original 1893 black and white print ad for the Langdon & Batcheller's Genuine Thomson's Glove-Fitting

This is a set of two original 1878 halftone prints of the Automatic Gas-Pumping Engine

This is an original 1912 black and white halftone print of the village of Braithwait

while turning the chore into a makeshift sleigh ride via tractor through the snowy terrain

1907 Print Venice Italy Bucintoro Boat Gandola Ascension Marriage Adriatic XGTB4 Holland (The Netherlands) a precision optics grinding craftsmanThis is an original 1907 black and white halftone print of the traditional ceremony that occurred annually in Venice, Italy, where the Doge (ruler) would wed Venice to the Adriatic Sea in the hope that God would calm the sea's waters and the Venetians' troubled hearts. He performed this ceremony on the Ascension Day after mass in Saint Mark's Basilica. The Doge would ride the famous and elaborately decorated Bucintoro boat (pictured in the background)