Handsome Young Sailor, USS San Francisco, C. WW2 Snapshot vintage faience vase 24" x 3/4" x

24" x 3/4" x

and quite a different beast than the theorem still lives of fruits and flowers that were much more common

They are done in graphite on each page with the backs left blank

had it archivally matted

The green-painted letters on one side

Handsome Young Sailor, USS San Francisco, C. WW2 Snapshot vintage faience vase 24" x 3/4" xA handsome, sensitive looking, very young sailor, late 1930s or so, I believe (looking a bit like a young Barack Obama to me!), with his hat reading USS San Francisco. Commissioned in 1934, the USS San Francisco was one of the most decorated ships of WW2, used heavily in the South Pacific. I especially like photos of young sailors who look like they've just put on their uniforms for the first time and are posing for a photo to leave with their mother;