The Green Man Ferro China bottle: Cairo, Egypt, 1994
A bitter aperitif from 1990s Cairo with an odd name and undrinkable contents
La Baalbanaise arak bottle: Cairo, Egypt, 1994
Conjuring up neither the decadence of Baalbek nor the panache of the Lebanese
Portrait of Saad Zaghloul, leader of Egypt’s 1919 revolution
The tattered portrait of the man who led the Egyptian revolution of 1919
Chabrawichi 555 cologne: Cairo, Egypt, 1998
An Egyptian cologne that in enclosed spaces tends to linger almost in perpetuity
Debonair portrait: Pontremoli, Italy, 1920
A debonair young man in the 1920s sends his greetings to a lady
Portrait of a couple: Florence, Italy, c1900
A couple on the outskirts of Florence have their portrait taken in the early-1900s
