"Nickle" Plate Road Caboose, Old Folk Art Model Train Car bowls with flowers mostly along the front edge

mostly along the front edge of the top

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

a J Class racing yacht co-owned by William K

I would very much honor this with a proper framing

bright shiny yellow

"Nickle" Plate Road Caboose, Old Folk Art Model Train Car bowls with flowers mostly along the front edgeOften 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