Old Red Painted Cigar Box Train or Traveling Circus Car with Screened Windows honeymoon portrait revealing how the linen panel

revealing how the linen panel was pulled and stitched tight around a wooden board

I'm not totally sure about the form at left

original to them I am fairly sure

intent on teaching French vocabulary to her children--makes me very happy

Old Red Painted Cigar Box Train or Traveling Circus Car with Screened Windows honeymoon portrait revealing how the linen panelI'm thinking this very sweet cigar box on wheels might have been made by a parent or grandparent long ago as part of a traveling circus set; it seems well suited to house a lion or tiger behind those screens (though would also make a great cricket cage.) I especially love the screen covered round cutout window at the front end, and the yellow painted fully rotating axels and wheels. Lots of love invested in this. Box itself: 8 5 8 l x 4 5 8d x 5 5 8