Winsome Child with Excellent Toy Tower, Antique Mounted Photograph vintage silver showing a little splitting at

showing a little splitting at the short sides

The box also shows lots of wear

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

and white stripes for the wing feathers

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 showing a little splitting atA 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