Handmade Vintage Papier Mache and Cloth Punch Puppet inlaid wood tray Beautifully made

Beautifully made

with some loss of paint and assorted scuff marks

loss of paint in a few spots

And I learned that a mushroom very similar to this one

Made in Germany

Handmade Vintage Papier Mache and Cloth Punch Puppet inlaid wood tray Beautifully madeThis crazy face! How not to love??!! I don't know much about the origins of this vintage handmade painted papier mache and cloth Punch doll puppet, but I sure wish I'd had him when I was a kid doing puppet shows, as he would have made a great protagonist or antagonist in many a drama. Punch and Judy has roots in 16th century Italian commedia dell'arte, in which Punch (Punchinello) was the trickster figure or "lord of misrule" which this puppet surely