Nice 1914 Chip Carved Tramp Art Lidded Pedestal Box with Great Dry Wood Patina Cheney Clapp good behavior Sold in the simple

Sold in the simple

perhaps a record of its owners rather than its maker

then multiple pencil drawn frames around the whole thing

I think it has many good years left

Nice 1914 Chip Carved Tramp Art Lidded Pedestal Box with Great Dry Wood Patina Cheney Clapp good behavior Sold in the simpleIn 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