Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop handmade primitive brush but also the care its

but also the care its maker took in carving each of the pegs

The drawers

Dating to the heyday of Spiritualism

I would guess mid 19th c or so

with some rusting

Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop handmade primitive brush but also the care itsWow. I love an old photo of a child with their toys, but this is a different level portrait entirely. This very very blonde, intense and otherworldly looking child keeps making me think of (Herzog muse) Klaus Kinski, and that amazing quilted wall evokes some dimension of Kubrick's The Shining, too. (Truly, I feel an electric current running through this photo.) With what looks to me to a sword in one hand, some sort of a cup with chains dangling from