SOLD Boa Having Eaten an Antelope, With Excellent Sleuthy Shadow, Earlyish 20th C. French Photograph vintage pinback button Clearly this one did some

Clearly this one did some work and was prized enough to repair

And seems like he's really listening now when I talk to him

I believe they were soda fired

the iron spikes extending at regular intervals from the rotating wooden wheels at either end are quite sharp enough to leave their mark

SOLD Boa Having Eaten an Antelope, With Excellent Sleuthy Shadow, Earlyish 20th C. French Photograph vintage pinback button Clearly this one did someThe sight of a boa having just consumed an antelope is indeed quite a phenomenal one, and the form of the snake's very long body here, large bulge at the center, just formally quite extraordinary. But for me it is the presence of the shadow at lower right, of man in hat looking rather like an inspector and coming in on the diagonal that really completes it for me. Plus that second shadow, a sort of mysterious near horizontal line at lower left, and