Hand-puppet Animals with Painted Papier Mache Heads - Set of 4 clay lion Widely collected by museums

Widely collected by museums

with this terrific array of unusual geometric forms dangling from every other link of the chain

but I sure wish I'd had him when I was a kid doing puppet shows

in a wooden canister with a wonderful label c

2 1/4” tall x 2 1/8” in diameter and in excellent condition

Hand-puppet Animals with Painted Papier Mache Heads - Set of 4 clay lion Widely collected by museumsI'm never one to pass by a charming hand puppet, and all the better to find a set of them! Here we have an elephant, cat, bird, and I'm not completely sure on the fourth one with the pink head, a pig? I think the painted painted faces are pretty fabulous, perhaps especially that blue elephant with long trunk and the long yellow beak of the bird. Their clothes are made of a sort of nylon, secured with ribbons toughly wrapped around their necks. Plenty