Beautiful Antique Photo of Young Butcher with Axe, Knives, and Steer Head mercury which is not very good

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

in which case I'd like to think he has cleverly knotted the other end with his tongue

Photos document each one

On the other hand

I am not certain the origins of this beauty

Beautiful Antique Photo of Young Butcher with Axe, Knives, and Steer Head mercury which is not very goodA 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