Lionel Tin Litho Milk Car Platform antique thermometer and I've especially come to

and I've especially come to love little tabletop chests like this one

which included many fine antiques

giving the piece a great dynamism

including in combination with splint ash on the lower half of the vessel

Lionel Tin Litho Milk Car Platform antique thermometer and I've especially come toI 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