Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers on Horseback handmade sign The doll measures 11 1/2

The doll measures 11 1/2 inches tall and 4 inches wide

perhaps the oars

which give it such a marvelous intimacy and specificity that its nature as a drawing is most certainly the dominant one

I think this little old handmade wooden box is very sweet

Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers on Horseback handmade sign The doll measures 11 1/2These 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