Menagerie of Tiny Animals! Very Charming Earlier 19th Century Mounted Watercolors in Period Gilded Frame wooden sailors including a 1850-60s photo featuring

including a 1850-60s photo featuring a group of likely abolitionists standing in front of Harriet Beecher Stowe's home in Andover

1 7/8" across at lip

Homespun fabric

They are wonderful old ones

each carved of cigar box wood (with text visible on the sides of a few

Menagerie of Tiny Animals! Very Charming Earlier 19th Century Mounted Watercolors in Period Gilded Frame wooden sailors including a 1850-60s photo featuringCompletely charming. I purchased this (these!) from a favorite dealer in my neck of the woods, from whom I have bought many wonderful and wonderfully tender things. I might guess these little hand drawn watercolor animals each standing on a small batch of green but for the ostrich, who got a bit of black were originally made to be stood up and moved around, like antique handmade paper toy soldiers that I've had a handful of, with folded paper tabs