Winsome Child with Excellent Toy Tower, Antique Mounted Photograph vintage silver and white stripes for the

and white stripes for the wing feathers

animated (I have to think at the whim of the draw-er

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

Box measures 5 3/8" w x 3 1/4" d x 1 15/16" t

There were two different versions of this produced: one opening like a desk to store the guides (and chalk) inside

Winsome Child with Excellent Toy Tower, Antique Mounted Photograph vintage silver and white stripes for theA child after my own heart what a tower! I believe this angelic looking child is a boy, and he looks as if he is taking his role as defender of his creation pretty seriously! I really love old photos that include images of toys and dolls that are familiar to me from selling their likes here what look like Hill's alphabet blocks, with a few other litho papered blocks mixed in, and an early Humpty Dumpty too! Plus a couple of cats and assorted other