Double-Sided Bi-Racial Hand-painted Jointed Cardboard Boxing Figures Spanish ceramics but with no information on

but with no information on his maker or exact age

I'd guess is it pretty old and there is a bit of roughness to the wood in a few spots on the reaming end

which is wrapped around the box and nicely tucked in at the end

It's super satisfying to use

The handwritten text below the drawing is a (translated) excerpt from a verse of "Auld Lang Syne" a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1788:

Double-Sided Bi-Racial Hand-painted Jointed Cardboard Boxing Figures Spanish ceramics but with no information onThese terrific hand painted jointed boxers are bi racial: each is black on one side and white on the other. I have found one other similar pair online dated to the 1920s, which is about how old I'd guess these are but those were printed rather than wonderfully hand painted as these are, including these great polka dotted waist bands on their red and blue shorts! I think perhaps they may have been inspired by the famous 1810 match between Tom Cribb &