Antique Strombecker Wooden Train Set - Four Locomotives Plus Eight Cars clay vessel 1967) manages to feel totally

1967) manages to feel totally cartoonish (I keep thinking it is actually going to start signing and dancing) but also pretty classy

and glazed a deep

The graphics on the label are pretty great too-- including the logo with Empire Brushes circling a globe and the phrase "Clean Round the World"

Or use it as a vase for ikebana

on a tabletop

Antique Strombecker Wooden Train Set - Four Locomotives Plus Eight Cars clay vessel 1967) manages to feel totallyI've become pretty enamored of old wooden trucks and trains (in addition to everything else!), but it seems to me that anything that consumed such time, patience, and obvious passion on the part of its maker should be paid some respect and, hopefully, now find its way to a kindred spirit! These trains (scroll through all photos to see the complete set) I purchased at the estate sale of a family in Newburyport, MA, whose recently deceased father had