Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop antique embroidery as if it has been

as if it has been walking around for the past 150 years or so

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

is in very good condition overall

a solid black shadow version of itself

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

Otherworldly Looking Child with Sword, Toys, and Fantastic Quilted Backdrop antique embroidery as if it has beenWow. 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