Scarce Werner & Schuman German Embossed Die-Cut Soldiers Set with Stands, Late 19th Century gifts and looks to me like

and looks to me like a very earnest

19th c at the youngest but I think perhaps a good bit older than that

This very sweet little hand-carved puzzle cross is harder than it looks

with a great patina to the metal (which I believe is brass but I guess could possibly be steel given a brass-like finish)

and beautiful tiny thing

Scarce Werner & Schuman German Embossed Die-Cut Soldiers Set with Stands, Late 19th Century gifts and looks to me likeThere is a dealer at a shop I frequent in New Hampshire who I believe spent her whole life collecting antique toys and games; occasionally I hit the shop just right and come home with a small trove of good ones. This is one of four boxes from her listed today and the one among them I had never seen an example of before. The title on the box (which alone sold me on these, I think it so striking) translates from the German to "Relief Pictures for