Viral Marvelous Antique Handmade Paper Animals - Set Three In Multiple Colors [ryHepwk3]

Perhaps 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 too, and theantlers on those deer (and dear!) are pretty marvelous, and that freckled little leopard, too.  I purchased a larger lot of these and have divided them into groups, thinking maybe that made manageable sense--two more sets listed today. My guess is perhaps a school project many years ago, with some variation in the writing--and in the scale of animals!--suggesting the work of different students.

Coiled snake approx 3" d. Cobra 7 1/2" l. All in very good antique condition.