Montana Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Flame Keepers Blueprint —

The Flame Keepers Blueprint — Patent Archive of the Pocket Lighter captures the gentleman's vice at its most engineered — the holders

and period broadsides — the press photographers

The Ivory Pipe Patent Blueprint of a Gentlemans Vice belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

and like all good astronomical engravings of its age

the wooden boardwalk

Montana Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Flame Keepers Blueprint —Montana arrives in lithographed views of the Big Sky country Glacier's chiseled peaks, copper rich Butte gouged from the earth, and lonesome ranchland where a single grain elevator anchors the horizon. The greeting cards lean hard into open space, as if the printer himself ran short of foreground. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards, large letter cards, real photo