Double-Sided Bi-Racial Hand-painted Jointed Cardboard Boxing Figures vintage Chinese brass koi shaped locks of a floating lily pad

of a floating lily pad

and once one has done so

which he does pretty well

What a special thing now to be the caretaker of

cuffs and apron

Double-Sided Bi-Racial Hand-painted Jointed Cardboard Boxing Figures vintage Chinese brass koi shaped locks of a floating lily padThese terrific hand painted jointed boxers are bi racial: each is black on one side and white on the other. I have found one other similar pair online dated to the 1920s, which is about how old I'd guess these are but those were printed rather than wonderfully hand painted as these are, including these great polka dotted waist bands on their red and blue shorts! I think perhaps they may have been inspired by the famous 1810 match between Tom Cribb &