Army Men Playing Chess, Vintage Snapshot carved figure on stand with three different openings and

with three different openings and three different levels

What I especially like about this "scale of values"

No broken letters at all

I've looked and looked and have not found another with the same form

Army Men Playing Chess, Vintage Snapshot carved figure on stand with three different openings andI 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