Army Men Playing Chess, Vintage Snapshot antique basketry What I've learned about Harold

What I've learned about Harold Zussin

1974 cost $6

Box missing one edge and while the lid will slide in on top without the right edge it does not hold secured

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

Army Men Playing Chess, Vintage Snapshot antique basketry What I've learned about HaroldI 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