Larger car: 6.5 x 11.5 x 5"; Smaller car: 6.5 x 11 x 5"

Neat and unusual, early hand-painted wooden advertising models (salesman’s sample or patent model?) for H. G. Howard Co.’s (Belvidere, IL) railroad car connecting couplings, w/ advertising and 1880 patent date on each car. Cars have a wonderful, rich early paint surface and a great folk art type look and are clean and excellent overall, w/ just the right amount of minor, light expected aging and wear (C. 8+/-).