Marvelous Old Hand-drawn Cutout Paper Soldiers Mounted to Wood crescent moon shaped And what a chair it

And what a chair it is

which I purchased from a dealer at a flea market who said they had come from an estate he had just cleaned out in Maine (and from which he also had some old crocks and 19th century photographs

Box measures 8 1/4" l x 4 1/4" w x 1 1/4" t

I love the white dust ruffle on the bed and bolster-like pillow propping up the head of the sick figure

but it's so sweet

Marvelous Old Hand-drawn Cutout Paper Soldiers Mounted to Wood crescent moon shaped And what a chair itThese are among my favorite finds ever, and exactly the sort of thing I am forever searching for, bringing total joy at their singular existence, and marvel at their tender, labor intensive execution. It seems to me the uniforms could be c. late 19th century US Army, but I think look rather more like WWI French, and those mustached profiles do look rather French to me. Each one was hand drawn in pencil and colored pencil or crayon on scraps of stiff