Lionel Tin Litho Milk Car Platform kids drawing to the chickens pecking away

to the chickens pecking away on the green next to the train tracks

it is in excellent vintage condition

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

handmade in Russia (in Moscow I believe) in the early 1960s

complete with an interior shelf and a bright pink curdoroy lining

Lionel Tin Litho Milk Car Platform kids drawing to the chickens pecking awayI 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