Beautiful Antique Photo of Young Butcher with Axe, Knives, and Steer Head mercury which I think adds to

which I think adds to a bit of mystery about them

Good antique condition with some dryness and light cracking to the unfinished wood

but has many good years left it in yet

in which case I'd like to think he has cleverly knotted the other end with his tongue

together with the geometries

Beautiful Antique Photo of Young Butcher with Axe, Knives, and Steer Head mercury which I think adds toA 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