"Nickle" Plate Road Caboose, Old Folk Art Model Train Car bowls with flowers a J Class racing yacht

a J Class racing yacht co-owned by William K

spectacular smoke cloud against spare landscape and minimalist oil tank formally PERFECT

and very subtle peduncle (that's the tip)

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

"Nickle" Plate Road Caboose, Old Folk Art Model Train Car bowls with flowers a J Class racing yachtOften 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