Double-Sided Bi-Racial Hand-painted Jointed Cardboard Boxing Figures Spanish ceramics which is about the right

which is about the right size to hold a rolled up note to self for safekeeping

The vase measures 6 1/2" tall and 3 1/4" in diameter at widest

It features dark brown bands against a mottled tan ground

5 1/2" tall x 2 3/4" in diameter

The handwritten text below the drawing is a (translated) excerpt from a verse of "Auld Lang Syne" a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1788:

Double-Sided Bi-Racial Hand-painted Jointed Cardboard Boxing Figures Spanish ceramics which is about the rightThese terrific hand painted jointed boxers are bi racial: each is black on one side and white on the other. I have found one other similar pair online dated to the 1920s, which is about how old I'd guess these are but those were printed rather than wonderfully hand painted as these are, including these great polka dotted waist bands on their red and blue shorts! I think perhaps they may have been inspired by the famous 1810 match between Tom Cribb &