Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop antique embroidery and Southern face jugs as

and Southern face jugs as well

I have not removed it from the frame so am not sure what it was backed with

is in very good condition overall

I've always got an eye out for antique cut paper hearts and the like

though I'd be inclined to put it on a pedestal

Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop antique embroidery and Southern face jugs asWow. 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