I may do that but kinda reluctant as the frame is a beautiful oval sealed back that I would have to cut it out and ruin its originality but the curiosity may get the better of me. I have one other person that says they have definitely seen him before also which leads me to believe he may be someone of prominence.
Hey, I'm ashamed to say this but I was going to go ahead and cut it out when I noticed a very faint pencil signature under bright light on the back hardly visible against the black backing the name Judge William T. Howell. I googled him and he is a prominent jurist and politician who served as a judge in the newly formed Arizona Territory and author of the territory's first legal code the "Howell Code" and was nominated to the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court by Abraham Lincoln....Very interesting history.
Marietta is where I am, but we like to spend a week in the summer around Blue Ridge. That's a great area.
