Army Men Playing Chess, Vintage Snapshot antique basketry 4 1/16" l including tail

4 1/16" l including tail (2 7/8" long not including tail)

What I've learned about Harold Zussin

Of course I can't look at this old pin the tail on the donkey without thinking about the Democratic Party

I don't think the design of this Lubbers & Bell "Puzzle Peg" game could be any better--aesthetically

plus big black boots for hopping along

Army Men Playing Chess, Vintage Snapshot antique basketry 4 1/16" l including tailI can't look at a chess board without thinking of Duchamp, my personal favorite artist thinker ever, and so I have a particular fondness for images of chess games in progress, embodying strategic minds at work. I think the framing on this snapshot is so good, with the bent knees, and elbows too, of these men pointing straight toward the corners of the board. And it seems just right that they should be in what look to me like army greens, with chess