Army Men Playing Chess, Vintage Snapshot carved figure on stand all to the good I

all to the good I think--these are super solid and pretty much indestructible

snake-like handle is a drafting  brush

What I especially like about this "scale of values"

and an especially nicely done front

Army Men Playing Chess, Vintage Snapshot carved figure on stand all to the good II can't look at a chess board without thinking of Duchamp, my personal favorite artist thinker ever, and so I have a particular fondness for images of chess games in progress, embodying strategic minds at work. I think the framing on this snapshot is so good, with the bent knees, and elbows too, of these men pointing straight toward the corners of the board. And it seems just right that they should be in what look to me like army greens, with chess