Antique Homemade Marble Run with Large Catching Platform (for All Sorts of Things) tiny drawings much beloved sled dog

much beloved sled dog

worn by ministers

signed (incised) PAT on the underside

leaving just a lonely YZ for the last line

which is split into two parts

Antique Homemade Marble Run with Large Catching Platform (for All Sorts of Things) tiny drawings much beloved sled dogI love a marble run, and this is really a a lovely and lovingly crafted old homemade one. What I especially love is the large marble catching tray the ramp feeds into, which to me is an invitation to create a whole set up into which those rolling marbles spill! A nice spot for some little wooden folk art houses, say, or one might construct a whole obstacle course! Or, one could set an old marbles jumping game board there and use the marble run as a