"Nickle" Plate Road Caboose, Old Folk Art Model Train Car bowls with flowers and very subtle peduncle (that's

and very subtle peduncle (that's the tip)

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

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

"Nickle" Plate Road Caboose, Old Folk Art Model Train Car bowls with flowers and very subtle peduncle (that'sOften 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