Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers with Trumpeter studio pottery decanter which came with a cork

which came with a cork stopper

) Really a fabulous piece

please select 5 of them

it would be the perfect thing to have sitting on the counter when trying to sell a house--and that is what I thought of as soon as I saw this bowl

Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers with Trumpeter studio pottery decanter which came with a corkThese 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)