Winsome Child with Excellent Toy Tower, Antique Mounted Photograph vintage silver ) feels more like an

) feels more like an energetic and perhaps rather pesky sidekick

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

This is a beautiful

11" l x 8" w x 7 7/8" t

The box also shows lots of wear

Winsome Child with Excellent Toy Tower, Antique Mounted Photograph vintage silver ) feels more like anA 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