Pair of Diminuitive Old Carved Marionette Heads soldiers on horseback here a few years younger

here a few years younger but wearing a relatively similar expression

Image size is 8 7/8" x 5 7/8"

which I keeping thinking of as the face of a crescent moon

so he might be the narrator) Harry is only mentioned once--as a blind old man

founded 1869

Pair of Diminuitive Old Carved Marionette Heads soldiers on horseback here a few years youngerI 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,