Winsome Child with Excellent Toy Tower, Antique Mounted Photograph wood and lead mold looking reverent and surreal and

looking reverent and surreal and a bit Sphinx-like to me

with great flame-like shape to it that amplifies a sense of drama and makes for a bit of illusionism

later returning to Vermont to work for 14 years as a fireman and engineer on the passenger train of the Burlington & Lamoille Railroad

11 3/4" in diameter x 1" tall and in excellent condition without a flaw that I can find

it is certainly a fine and to my eye strikingly beautiful thing

Winsome Child with Excellent Toy Tower, Antique Mounted Photograph wood and lead mold looking reverent and surreal andA 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