"Nickle" Plate Road Caboose, Old Folk Art Model Train Car bowls with flowers " I would take it

"  I would take it now as a lovely token of friendships past

I would very much honor this with a proper framing

The back end page has a large tear and there is plenty of wear to the cover and spine

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

and very subtle peduncle (that's the tip)

"Nickle" Plate Road Caboose, Old Folk Art Model Train Car bowls with flowers " I would take itOften 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