"Nickle" Plate Road Caboose, Old Folk Art Model Train Car vintage faience vase Just a great old hand-carved

Just a great old hand-carved frame

vintage 1930s

with the branch/post to which it is somehow attached looking to have been stripped half way up leaving a pile of shavings below

and one of them is carved wooden whimsies like this chain

but the black

"Nickle" Plate Road Caboose, Old Folk Art Model Train Car vintage faience vase Just a great old hand-carvedOften 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