Handmade Vintage Papier Mache and Cloth Punch Puppet sterling silver and signed on the bottom

and signed on the bottom

This couple seem very empathetic indeed

Presumed mid-century

There are a fair number of Mexican frog pitchers out there

and skiers

Handmade Vintage Papier Mache and Cloth Punch Puppet sterling silver and signed on the bottomThis 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