1930s Art Deco Style Bellhop guignol puppet theatre with the only visible flaw

with the only visible flaw being a tiny chip at the very tip of the peak of one of the dark cranes

This book is worth owning for the list of patterns alone--- which includes large-scale elements but also such intimate ones as "sitting wall

and the sweet story of a Jacques and Marie escaping to the the beach on a hot July day in Paris

It looks to me that there are at least four different hardwoods used and they are all pretty spectacular

and imagine that the next thing to happen was the less fun endeavor of cleaning these little fish

1930s Art Deco Style Bellhop guignol puppet theatre with the only visible flawThough I didn't know it when I found him, I've since learned that this bellhop was produced in conjunction with a Philip Morris cigarette advertising campaign launched in 1933, and would once have carried either a bundle of cigarettes in one hand and a book of matches in the other (or else a cruet set; there were a couple of different versions produced, and I believe they were often displayed on hotel bars.) His baggage is long since gone, leaving his