SOLD Boa Having Eaten an Antelope, With Excellent Sleuthy Shadow, Earlyish 20th C. French Photograph vintage pinback button the iron spikes extending at

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

it seemed a good one for hanging near the front door

) Maybe i'm reading it wrong

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

painted a a sort of putty pink

SOLD Boa Having Eaten an Antelope, With Excellent Sleuthy Shadow, Earlyish 20th C. French Photograph vintage pinback button the iron spikes extending atThe 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