Charming c. 1930 Wooden Boxing Toy, Sharkey vs. Schmeling serving and always surprising

and always surprising

I believe the fronts were hand-printed--the color is lush but a little uneven

The mottled matte periwinkle blue glaze is pretty perfect as well

and it is definitely the sort of piece I would want to arrange the rest of a room around

Charming c. 1930 Wooden Boxing Toy, Sharkey vs. Schmeling serving and always surprisingI've had a couple of these wonderful old boxing toys in the shop, each a little different, and will never pass them by if I can help it, as I think they're just fantastic graphically, and fun to play with too! The faces on this one are especially great, and even better: handwritten in pencil down the leg of one figure is Sharkey, for Jack Sharkey, and Schmeling on the other, for Max Schmeling, who fought each other for the world title in 1930.