Marvelous Antique Folk Art Cigar Box Wood Train cookware with their three point welded

with their three point welded handles

designed by Cass Gilbett as the headquarters for F

debuted its Humpty Dumpty Circus in 1903-- the best thing they ever made

I believe this sweet little wooden box was a Florentine souvenir

Marvelous Antique Folk Art Cigar Box Wood Train cookware with their three point weldedThe existence of things like this gives me tremendous joy, representing a great deal of resourcefulness and creativity on the part of its maker as well as a great deal of dexterity and persistence, to say nothing of love! I'm not sure if there were once more cars to it, but the three that have endured are quite marvelous, made almost entirely of cigar box bits, with doors on the side of one of them that slide open and closed (with nails for handles),