Handmade Vintage Papier Mache and Cloth Punch Puppet green frog pitcher and there is one crack

and there is one crack in the exterior red cap of one of the thermoses

frame opening: 3 1/2" x 5"

"Made in Japan" stamped on the bottom

It measures 2 1/8ʺin diameter and 4 1/4" tall

this antique oak wood box is constructed of four hinged parts with triangular shaped ends

Handmade Vintage Papier Mache and Cloth Punch Puppet green frog pitcher and there is one crackThis crazy face! How not to love??!! I don't know much about the origins of this vintage handmade painted papier mache and cloth Punch doll puppet, but I sure wish I'd had him when I was a kid doing puppet shows, as he would have made a great protagonist or antagonist in many a drama. Punch and Judy has roots in 16th century Italian commedia dell'arte, in which Punch (Punchinello) was the trickster figure or "lord of misrule" which this puppet surely