Marvelous Old Hand-drawn Cutout Paper Soldiers Mounted to Wood thick glaze also in Ravenna

also in Ravenna

These were observed

painted bubblegum pink with these black diamonds all down its back

5 1/4" in diameter x 3 3/8" tall and to my eye beautifully aged

from the heads of Player's cigarette sailors

Marvelous Old Hand-drawn Cutout Paper Soldiers Mounted to Wood thick glaze also in RavennaThese are among my favorite finds ever, and exactly the sort of thing I am forever searching for, bringing total joy at their singular existence, and marvel at their tender, labor intensive execution. It seems to me the uniforms could be c. late 19th century US Army, but I think look rather more like WWI French, and those mustached profiles do look rather French to me. Each one was hand drawn in pencil and colored pencil or crayon on scraps of stiff