Lionel Tin Litho Milk Car Platform kids drawing taught by Shoji Hamada and

taught by Shoji Hamada and Bernard Leach

etc--at first for dances but then specifically to sell

This snail was acquired from the estate of a choreographer/dancer in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood

which is part of what I think makes it feel so special

though there are a fair number of small gilded cast bronze animals out there-- Japanese and Chinese

Lionel Tin Litho Milk Car Platform kids drawing taught by Shoji Hamada andI 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