Pair of Diminuitive Old Carved Marionette Heads soldiers on horseback plus what an excellent bob

plus what an excellent bob

and is wired on the back for hanging

here a few years younger but wearing a relatively similar expression

founded 1869

and is great both standing on end or laying horizontally

Pair of Diminuitive Old Carved Marionette Heads soldiers on horseback plus what an excellent bobI wish I knew how these two came to be. And yet it seems rather right that they should exist without context, seeming all the more existential, and making me think of Estragon and Vladimir from Waiting for Godot. I believe they were the heads of marionettes, their bodies now long done but the pair definitely seeming as if they've still got dramas they want to enact! With carved and painted heads on dowels that extend to the bottom of their chests,