Marvelous Antique Handmade Paper Animals - Set Three small wooden man and charmingly stick-like little legs

and charmingly stick-like little legs and feet

10” wide

Not a masterpiece but pretty charming

and an interesting one

which played an important part in popularizing the medium

Marvelous Antique Handmade Paper Animals - Set Three small wooden man and charmingly stick-like little legsPerhaps a menagerie of cut paper animals and soldiers, too, listed separately would not set everyone's heart racing, but they sure do for me, especially when the names of the animals are written across their fronts in the very best manner of kid handwriting a la 1900 or so. Pure joy. I'm especially partial to the cobra here, exuberantly decorated with graphite scales on both sides, but the little baboon and large smiling chimpanzee are pretty great