Marvelous Antique Handmade Paper Animals - Set Three mapping but this is really a

but this is really a lovely old cut paper hand

and its exterior coated in a dark brown stain/varnish

the 19th c

A nice compact set too

Marvelous Antique Handmade Paper Animals - Set Three mapping but this is really aPerhaps a menagerie of cut paper animals and soldiers, too, listed separately would not set everyone's heart racing, but they sure do for me, especially when the names of the animals are written across their fronts in the very best manner of kid handwriting a la 1900 or so. Pure joy. I'm especially partial to the cobra here, exuberantly decorated with graphite scales on both sides, but the little baboon and large smiling chimpanzee are pretty great