Strange Posture, Curious Gesture, Antique Snapshot of Women in Long Coats and Bonnets antique ship in a bottle spring tension catching/gripping mechanism

spring tension catching/gripping mechanism

with one tiny nail hole in the wood at upper right

but I found setting it on this stool

I believe this dates to the 1st half of the 19th century

The neck of the rabbit was left un-sewn at the front so as to cover the neck of the bottle

Strange Posture, Curious Gesture, Antique Snapshot of Women in Long Coats and Bonnets antique ship in a bottle spring tension catching/gripping mechanismA very curious one, feeling to me like an early film still very striking, but what is going on here? Perhaps the woman in the foreground (what a face!) is in fact on ice skates, which would explain her strange posture, or perhaps she is hiding something or someone behind her skirt? (Is there a child there, bent over, in black too?) And what is the woman behind her with raised arm as if about to chop the air actually doing? I don't know, but in their