Lionel Tin Litho Milk Car Platform antique thermometer especially as I’ve never seen

especially as I’ve never seen one like it before

including in combination with splint ash on the lower half of the vessel

and the stems of the hairpin are a bit bent

"The Modern House" by James Ford and Katherine Morrow Ford was first published by the Architectural Book Publishing Co

Lionel Tin Litho Milk Car Platform antique thermometer especially as I’ve never seenI really love this thing, which feels like a modernist sculpture to me, and also the perfect tabletop stage on and around which to arrange other little things. I've learned that it was made by Lionel Electric Trains, c. late 40s I think, and would once have been sold along with a milk truck, which would pull up in front of the platform to unload milk. Now on its own it makes for a super satisfying little architectural object I think. It is well