Title
Clockwork Train
Mediumwood
Dimensions3 × 16 7/8 × 11 3/4 in. (7.6 × 42.9 × 29.8 cm)
Donor credit lineGift of C. Gardner Akin
Object number1977.21.4
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionTrain set or game. A damaged box that reads: The Ives Miniature Railway System/Manufactured by/The Ives Manufacturing Corportion/Bridgeport, Conn U.S.A. The box is green with a picture of a boy and girl playing with the train set. Inside the box is a set of railroad tracks, a black engine, and four railroad cars painted red. Two of the cars have the sign "Limited Vestibule Express/Hiawatha" on the side; a coal cars reads: L.V.E.No. 11"; and the fourth car reads: United States Mail/Exp. Service/ No. 50/ Limited Vestibule Express Baggage Car. Two keys are also in the box.On View
Not on view
Norman Fortier*
Safari, Ltd.
Yale, Leroy M. - attributed
Goode, Ned
C. H. & H.A. Lawton Co, Druggists.
1884
Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co.
