Antique Carved, Jointed Figure with Hand-drawn Face and Button Front model train platform There is a bit of

There is a bit of loss the far edge of the sliding piece

Pencil and watercolor on natural colored construction paper

But they're not in your thoughts a minute when your thirst makes you stand right in line / And the man in the apron says 'What will you have' / You say 'Just make it Moxie for mine

which I believe dates from sometime between 1900-1920

but I'd guess the body is a copper plumbing fitting of some sort

Antique Carved, Jointed Figure with Hand-drawn Face and Button Front model train platform There is a bit ofOne can just barely make out an old graphite drawn face of this very old friend, who might once have had hands and feet but I think maybe more likely was a large acrobat squeeze toy, with strings strung through the holes at the ends of his (extra long) arms and legs. Now, hell sit up on his own, with arms situated either in front of, or behind him. Quite a sweet one I think with primitively carved head and torso, buttons drawn down his front, arms and