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(AI) You are on the right track with Rives! That letter string is actually a mark from the photo's mounting board manufacturer, not a photographer.
BFK Rives Connection: "BFK Rives" (Blanchet Frères & Kiebler) is one of the most famous fine art, printmaking, and photographic paper manufacturers in history, produced at the historic Rives mill in France. Paper and board makers frequently embossed or blind-stamped their names onto the edges of photo mounts and cabinet cards in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
