Kind of an odd subject for a framed picture, the subject being models of two not particularly important Canadian steam locomotives, probably in HO scale. Really the only thing of note is that the owner of the top one is listed as one Andrew Merrilees- who founded and ran Andrew Merrilees Railway Supply in the Toronto Junction area until his death in 1979. His company mostly salvaged and resold used railway equipment, including leasing locomotives and railway cars. He was also a well known and respected railway historian.
The owner of the lower model, S. A.Stephens Jr. of Hampstead Quebec isn't so well known, though the name appears as the president of Watson Jack-Hopkins Limited, later Wajax, and seems to have disappeared past that...
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