Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop antique medical The box measures 4 1/2"

The box measures 4 1/2" across x 3 1/2" tall

with nice age and patina

but still quite beautiful just as they are I think

including the number of Saturdays

a notion most supported by the fact of Surrealist interest in the writings of French occultist Alexandre Saint-Yves d’Alveydre {d’Alveydre the Equlibriste

Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop antique medical The box measures 4 1/2"Wow. 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