the wood, material and everything about these puppets looks old.  if i was to choose, ide say these were vintage. 

now what are some values for these puppets?  instead of playing with these guys, ide rather display them to keep them from getting even more buss up!

Sonny, that link's also useful for building scenery (for me as a lay person): I would have put wood in the sun, but never thought of steelwool and vinegar. Even though I might leave out the steelwool so the wood would get more silver than brown.
Jaylay, those puppets are beautiful, not wonder you want to protect them