Vintage Metal Alligator Souvenir Nail File Bok Tower Lake Wales Florida Figurine

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Estate sale find, vintage Singing Tower, Lake Wales, Florida, souvenir alligator nail file.
Bok Tower Gardens and Singing Tower is a contemplative garden, and bird sanctuary located north of Lake Wales, Florida. The tower is built upon Iron Mountain, one of the highest points of peninsular Florida.
The gardens began in 1921 when a Dutch immigrant, Edward W. Bok, editor of the popular women's magazine Ladies Home Journal and his wife, Mary Louise Curtis Bok, who would found the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 1924, were spending the winter beside Florida's Lake Wales Ridge and decided to create a bird sanctuary on its highest hill.
Bok commissioned noted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. to transform what then was an arid sandhill into "a spot of beauty second to none in the country". The first year was spent digging trenches and laying pipes for irrigation, after which soil was brought to the site by thousands of truck loads and plantings began. The Olmsted plan included the planting of 1,000 large live oaks, 10,000 azaleas, 100 sabal palms, 300 magnolias, and 500 gordonias, as well as hundreds of fruit shrubs such as blueberry and holly.
Under construction for over five years, Bok Tower Gardens was dedicated by President Calvin Coolidge on February 1, 1929.  Edward Bok died on January 9, 1930 and was interred at the base of the tower.
The piece is approximately 75" wide and 5.25" long, approximate shipping weight will be 4 ounces.
PLEASE SEE PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS - The souvenir is in overall Good used condition, signs of wear, scuffs, tarnishing, scratches, worn finish, very dusty, etc., could use a cleaning, please see images.
(JB4-004)