Marvelous Antique Handmade Paper Animals - Set Three mapping The little bird with open

The little bird with open beak is also very sweet

and its exterior coated in a dark brown stain/varnish

and an old striped stretch of string inside connecting lid to base

the finished blonde wood has a nice sheen

Marvelous Antique Handmade Paper Animals - Set Three mapping The little bird with openPerhaps a menagerie of cut paper animals and soldiers, too, listed separately would not set everyone's heart racing, but they sure do for me, especially when the names of the animals are written across their fronts in the very best manner of kid handwriting a la 1900 or so. Pure joy. I'm especially partial to the cobra here, exuberantly decorated with graphite scales on both sides, but the little baboon and large smiling chimpanzee are pretty great