Beautiful Antique Photo of Young Butcher with Axe, Knives, and Steer Head mercury On the other hand

On the other hand

A sticker still on the inside says Made in Czechoslovakia

which I think adds to a bit of mystery about them

1 3/16" wide at knees when fully closed

which is not very good but gives a sense of what active workers these two are

Beautiful Antique Photo of Young Butcher with Axe, Knives, and Steer Head mercury On the other handA 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