Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers with Trumpeter blue on blue advertised outlets in the United

advertised outlets in the United States

with tiny screws holding the seats to the sides

and there is some cracking to the rest of her hair

One pound can - 4 1/2" t x 3 3/8" in diameter

from which the head and arms of a young monkey are emerging

Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers with Trumpeter blue on blue advertised outlets in the UnitedThese are the sorts of things that I am incapable of walking away from completely alive with the image of a child deeply absorbed in bringing imagined characters to life in order to physically enact war time dramas at miniature scale, in addition to dripping with charm in and of themselves. I might guess there were a couple of makers involved in creating these six soldiers, with with one second to left in the first photo (my favorite, looking askance)