Boy Commanding Dog, Onlookers, Platform, Amazing and Intense 1918 Snapshot Photo McCoy pottery Just a wonderful paint job

Just a wonderful paint job on this old wooden cutout goose

and with the most charming hand-colored engravings of any I've seen--notably different in quality from those more commonly sees of several decades later

3 1/2" x 5 1/2"

--but could hold various sorts of trinkets or mementos now

there is no foxing anywhere

Boy Commanding Dog, Onlookers, Platform, Amazing and Intense 1918 Snapshot Photo McCoy pottery Just a wonderful paint jobI find this snapshot quite extraordinary. In the foreground, this child with arm raised in a gesture that feels quite loaded at the moment commanding the attention of his dog, who stands at keen attention. And with that gesture perfectly echoed by the diagonal of the stairs and rails of the platform in the background, also by the diagonal of the of the bodies of two black men at left who have turned to watch. It feels as though the whole scene was