Army Men Playing Chess, Vintage Snapshot antique basketry plus big black boots for

plus big black boots for hopping along

4 1/16" l including tail (2 7/8" long not including tail)

and was the first woman to produce a book on wood-engraving (Wood-Engraving and Woodcuts

These show their age but are in great structural condition

I don't think the design of this Lubbers & Bell "Puzzle Peg" game could be any better--aesthetically

Army Men Playing Chess, Vintage Snapshot antique basketry plus big black boots forI can't look at a chess board without thinking of Duchamp, my personal favorite artist thinker ever, and so I have a particular fondness for images of chess games in progress, embodying strategic minds at work. I think the framing on this snapshot is so good, with the bent knees, and elbows too, of these men pointing straight toward the corners of the board. And it seems just right that they should be in what look to me like army greens, with chess