Unusual Antique Two Tiered Tramp Art Box with Pedestal Base and Handsome Champions! vegetable ivory carving finely crafted things

finely crafted things

the other unpainted

listed separately (which includes what seems to be of a bit of astronomy

I'd keep him out of the hot sun

mounted to a black piece of card via five carefully laid horizontal strips of scotch tape

Unusual Antique Two Tiered Tramp Art Box with Pedestal Base and Handsome Champions! vegetable ivory carving finely crafted thingsThe first thing I found on a quick trip to Pennsylvania this past week, and one of my favorites not your average tramp art box, and, actually, two boxes, with the top tier its own self contained box, which sits atop the unlidded pedestal box below (which itself can be flipped on its head, pedestal end up, to allow for a different configuration.) With a unique combination of decorative chipped carved elements on each side, a heart marking the opening