Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers on Horseback vintage Japanese tiger I'd never seen a rug

I'd never seen a rug beater like this before when I found it

predominately black and white pattern

The stories themselves

Good condition with rusting and paint loss as evident

especially when they've got such good alligatored paint as this rabbit

Hand-drawn Stand-up Paper Soldiers on Horseback vintage Japanese tiger I'd never seen a rugThese are the sorts of things that I am incapable of walking away from completely alive with the image of a child deeply absorbed in bringing imagined characters to life in order to physically enact war time dramas at miniature scale, in addition to dripping with charm in and of themselves. And these two, with cardboard tabs on the reverse to stand them up, were definitely played with gently I think, but they've been galloped around for sure. The neck