Early I.B & Co. "Single Truck with Horse" Box Ivison Phinney double-elastic pen Densely stuffed with rags

Densely stuffed with rags

they would be a great thing to build a collection of

enduring design problems--or "patterns" (of which they identify 253)--and ways of approaching/solving them distilled from functionally and experientially rewarding places

Sits flat and upright

Early I.B & Co. "Single Truck with Horse" Box Ivison Phinney double-elastic pen Densely stuffed with ragsTo 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