Super Charming Handmade Painted Tin Railroad Houses - Sold Individually silkscreen vintage sign This tall double opening vase

This tall double opening vase

which it closely follows from  the form of the carved body

but think it is quite a special little piece

of course is easy to remove if one prefer to put something more personal in its place

and with this perfect posture one might think he's about to win a medal

Super Charming Handmade Painted Tin Railroad Houses - Sold Individually silkscreen vintage sign This tall double opening vaseSo sweet! I don't know the history of these great old little tin houses, but I think likely they were part of a model railroad, and I love whoever made them. Perhaps best are the crossed metal strips in each of the cutout windows, which appear to be carefully welded into place on the inside, but it's also hard to beat the perfectly imperfect hand painted doors on their fronts and great color schemes overall (that yellow roof especially!) And the roofs