Lionel Tin Litho Milk Car Platform fun pillows with dyed red and green

with dyed red and green grass used for the snake-like decoration

I think it is just a fantastic little thing

which can be positioned in any number of ways and is different from every angle

and one could certainly engrave the back

though I'd probably find a good spot for it just as is

Lionel Tin Litho Milk Car Platform fun pillows with dyed red and greenI 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