Nice 1914 Chip Carved Tramp Art Lidded Pedestal Box with Great Dry Wood Patina curated object and lending themselves to constructing

and lending themselves to constructing all sorts of structures and arrangements

Terrific for flowers

but it certainly feels mid-century Scandanavian

like this donkey

There are just a couple of rim chips and one good repair as pictured

Nice 1914 Chip Carved Tramp Art Lidded Pedestal Box with Great Dry Wood Patina curated object and lending themselves to constructingIn my experience it's a pretty rare thing to find an old tramp art box that wasn't varnished or painted, making the patina to the dry cigar box wood on this one feel all the more special. I've also got a particular penchant for pedestal shaped tamp boxes, with the construction of their necks involving another level of stacking. There are certainly much fancier ones out there than this, but I love this one a lot, including, perhaps especially, for its