Printed Vintage Cardboard Sheets of Cutout Animals fishing boat on water I believe this birdcage dates

I believe this birdcage dates from the 1930s or so

though they vary

as they seemed rather less concerned with the details of the face of this presumably Dutch man--sweetly and a bit hesitantly penciling in eyes

with the care and skill of their maker palpable

as pure a form as can be

Printed Vintage Cardboard Sheets of Cutout Animals fishing boat on water I believe this birdcage datesThese old printed sheets of cutout cardboard animals are so fabulous looking I think I might just leave them as is and frame them. But as there are two complete sheets and also two with some of the animals long ago removed, one could punch some out for play and frame the complete sheets. (The cardboard is also very heavyweight and the cuts clean, so that one can pop out an animal and then punch it back in.) The animals don't quite stand up on their