Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers on Horseback suffrage sign made of cotton I believe

made of cotton I believe

These sweet old little wooden stands and ladder were once part of a Schoenut "Humpty Dumpty Circus" set --which is worth looking up as the clowns and articulated animals in the old sets are AMAZING

actually (based on the animals) appears to be the top of the piece: I believe it was once woven all the way to the end

is super sweet

as it is far more charming than any others I have seen

Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers on Horseback suffrage sign made of cotton I believeThese 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. And these two, with cardboard tabs on the reverse to stand them up, were definitely played with gently I think, but they've been galloped around for sure. The neck