Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers with Trumpeter blue on blue with tiny screws holding the

with tiny screws holding the seats to the sides

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

The person I purchased these from had done a little research

he's really best just set somewhere--his legs slide more than walk if trying to push him along by the tail

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

Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers with Trumpeter blue on blue with tiny screws holding theThese 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)