Early I.B & Co. "Single Truck with Horse" Box Isle of wight It's certainly fairly old and

It's certainly fairly old and has seen a lot of use

exposing the ash split structure underneath

I especially love the long plug nose and the painted flipper-arms at his sides

There is a small loss to the bottom right serif on the “F” as documented

Early I.B & Co. "Single Truck with Horse" Box Isle of wight It's certainly fairly old andTo 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