Cock Fight in the Barn Yard, Old Shapshot Photo stylized animals with no loss of layers

with no loss of layers

with the number of tassels indicating rank

Blocks are in good condition

Interior dimensions are 4 3/8" x 3 5/8" by about 9" t

8 3/8” x 1 11/16” and in very good antique condition

Cock Fight in the Barn Yard, Old Shapshot Photo stylized animals with no loss of layersThis one just struck me as quite poignant: two boys of about 14 I'd guess, facing off with cocks in hand and with the shadow of what looks to be a woman in skirt hovering over them. A nasty sport for certain, but there is something tender and intimate about the photo, and one imagines these farm boys feeling about as trapped as these birds. With a wooden hook or hinge just above them, exactly centered between the two as if marking the center of the