Lionel Tin Litho Milk Car Platform kids drawing handmade in Russia (in Moscow

handmade in Russia (in Moscow I believe) in the early 1960s

to the chickens pecking away on the green next to the train tracks

This snail was acquired from the estate of a choreographer/dancer in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood

terrifically beautiful

created more than a hundred years prior (in 1898

Lionel Tin Litho Milk Car Platform kids drawing handmade in Russia (in MoscowI 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