Early I.B & Co. "Single Truck with Horse" Box Ivison Phinney double-elastic pen Easy to play

Easy to play

Densely stuffed with rags

no indices

the gold foiled mat of which really makes his gold watch chain pop

Sits flat and upright

Early I.B & Co. "Single Truck with Horse" Box Ivison Phinney double-elastic pen Easy to playTo my eye this is really a beautiful old box, and a useful one, with the interior divided by slats into three sections. I can find no reference for I. B & Co, which is printed on the lovely old green paper label, but it seems possible it refers to the I. B Rowell Co. of Wuakesha, Wisconsin, which made farming tools; perhaps they produced a toy model or two as well? Long gone are the "single truck and horse" that were once inside, and gone is the slide