Intensively Stacked Sculptural Old Tramp Art Box with Hinged Lid and Velvet Lining large tramp art box I’ve really fallen in love

I’ve really fallen in love with the look of late 19th century croquet posts

and the wood is in excellent shape

and the the sweetgrass on the sides and lip has been twisted and woven in a variety of patterns

It still bears some of its original red paint (which reads orange)

who was responsible for writing many of the poems in it

Intensively Stacked Sculptural Old Tramp Art Box with Hinged Lid and Velvet Lining large tramp art box I’ve really fallen in loveI'm always thrilled to find a super sculptural tramp art box, just of this sort, and this one with a fantastic pattern of 12 stacked squares on the hinged lid. It's quite finely done, really almost delicate (though not fragile) just over 11 inches across, meaning that all those many many chip carved bits are small in scale and were very precisely laid. Beautiful all the way around with no notable losses, with the exception being the center front foot