Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers with Trumpeter blue on blue with tiny screws holding the

with tiny screws holding the seats to the sides

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

I think raw cotton

The person I purchased these from had done a little research

Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers with Trumpeter blue on blue with tiny screws holding theThese 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)