Beautiful Antique Photo of Young Butcher with Axe, Knives, and Steer Head snowman and snowwoman particularly for how resolved and

particularly for how resolved and confident it feels

I just love how curious and bright eyed and open to the world the figure looks

more pronounced in magnified photos than to the eye

They are hand numbered in pencil at top center (this one is 5

Beautiful Antique Photo of Young Butcher with Axe, Knives, and Steer Head snowman and snowwoman particularly for how resolved andA stunner of an antique photo I think, of a young man I take for a butcher, with huge axe resting on one elbow, what looks to me like a variety of knives hanging from the opposite hip, and giant steer head hanging on the wall. (The ears still on it.) With a studded leather belt with buckle that looks to me like the head of a fox. I especially love the vertical stripe pattern formed by the wood of the wall behind him, with horizontal iron hinge above