Lionel Tin Litho Milk Car Platform kids drawing This snail was acquired from

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

etc--at first for dances but then specifically to sell

it is in excellent vintage condition

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

Lionel Tin Litho Milk Car Platform kids drawing This snail was acquired fromI 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