Antique Store find - American Bricks

We went "antiquing" yesterday in Holly, Mi.  A little town in eastern Michgan, known for it's annual Renaissance Festival.

We went to the Renaissance Festival in the morning and finished up early, so we decided to look for antique stores.

I found this little gem at the first store we stopped at.

The box art is really good, but the screw on lid is missing.  It's from a smaller set, and these cans were very typical of building toys in the 50's and early 60's, so I might have an extra lid available.  If not, they're quite easy to find.

The bricks in the container make up a really nice little set, but somewhat incomplete.  I got it for an exceptionally good price, one that rivals that of some of the best prices found on eBay.

As well as being incomplete,  some of it's pieces are broken, but it's not crippled by that. The parts that are missing are minimal and in, at least the case of the roofing, somewhat understandable.  The roofing was card stock and tended to become bent and "ugly" after several uses.

I believe that I can probably make a good piece of replacement roofing from some green poster board.

Since this set is around 60 years old, I'd say that it stood up to time pretty well.

Here's another view of one of the models that I was able to put together rather quickly