Pair of Diminuitive Old Carved Marionette Heads shoe shaped snuff box The iron is rusty and

The iron is rusty and will flake a bit when handled

I didn't know it when I found this drawing

I purchased these drawings from a dealer in Romania and was not quite certain what to expect

quite a character

Pair of Diminuitive Old Carved Marionette Heads shoe shaped snuff box The iron is rusty andI 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,