Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers with Trumpeter blue on blue I think raw cotton

I think raw cotton

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

and am super charmed by these little miniature pencil drawings of three different estates done by a E

I find this bottle opener really satisfying--great form

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

Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers with Trumpeter blue on blue I think raw cottonThese 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)