Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers on Horseback suffrage sign and it is dated 1952

and it is dated 1952 on the underside

It makes me want to cook a big pot of black eyed peas in it just so that I can put it on the table

made of cotton I believe

The four little pedestal legs upon which the tub rests are pretty great too

without a chip or crack in sight

Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers on Horseback suffrage sign and it is dated 1952These 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