Crate Made Large Model Train Station with Great Lines antique wallpapered box used for hand-spinning yarn

used for hand-spinning yarn

6 1/2" long x 4 1/2 tall

and the scalloped pattern around the exterior makes this small bowl

and I think very charming example

Cast aluminum with dark red enamel

Crate Made Large Model Train Station with Great Lines antique wallpapered box used for hand-spinning yarnI think the lines on this old crate wood, scratch made structure are just terrific; something about the angled ramp on the front side together together with the open square at center and the pitch of the green roof just totally does it for me. Fashioned from old crate wood, I assume it was meant to be a train station and was made as part of a model train station set up but it's fairly large structure, so perhaps it was just its own thing. Whatever the