In 1952 a four-year-old boy was given a toy truck by his grandfather. The cast
metal and aluminum truck with a wooden bed and wooden slats for sides is a scale replica
of an R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company flatbed manufactured by Mack Truck.
The boy was no ordinary tyke, nor was the grandfather an ordinary man. And the
60-year-old gift was no ordinary toy. It launched a lifetime of collecting for that boy born
into a family of nonprofit stewards and historic preservationists.
AR, Anne Regina,
Westerwald jug,
circa 1710, right, this
German stoneware
was manufactured for
the English market.
Far right, an extremely
rare scrimshaw pieced
basket circa 1840-1880
made by a New England
sailor, perhaps from
Nantucket Island.
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