"Nickle" Plate Road Caboose, Old Folk Art Model Train Car bowls with flowers bright shiny yellow

bright shiny yellow

I know this beautiful little carved box came from the collection of Richard “Smitty” Axtell (Skinner recently held an auction of many pieces from his collection in "Smitty's Eye: The Axtell Collection") of Deposit

pretty much a perfect thing as far as I am concerned

I would very much honor this with a proper framing

"Nickle" Plate Road Caboose, Old Folk Art Model Train Car bowls with flowers bright shiny yellowOften I feel like a child looking at things; there is so much I don't know, I often just invent my own stories. In this case, I didn't know there was actually a "Nicke Plate Road" railroad (a nickname for the the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, founded in 1887, which served parts of the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri), I just liked the idea of a humble folk art train car with a humble name (rather