Marvelous Antique Handmade Paper Animals, Group One color sample brochure One finds hand-colored printed rewards

One finds hand-colored printed rewards of merits more frequently

And traces of old chalk writing across the face of the slate

and he’ll sit but not stand on his own

In the course of discovering his great nimbleness as I was photographing him

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Marvelous Antique Handmade Paper Animals, Group One color sample brochure One finds hand-colored printed rewardsPerhaps 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 Elephant and Elephant Baby, but that Dromedary (aka one humped camel) is pretty fantastic too. I purchased a larger lot of these and have