Elegant Antique Tramp Art Pedestal Box, Albany NY, with Ghostly Photos Inside, as Found copper tray and small losses at bottom

and small losses at bottom corners and a fold to bottom right corner

(Clearly he's built for scissors a bit smaller than the large ones I photographed him with

I love it just as it is

with just a bit of wear/loss of white paint--plus some white paint spatters on his wooden legs

a hub for weaving since pre-Inca times

Elegant Antique Tramp Art Pedestal Box, Albany NY, with Ghostly Photos Inside, as Found copper tray and small losses at bottomA beauty. I've gotten so that I like tramp art boxes that are either very minimalist, or very maximalist, and this one perfectly embodies why the former, feeling like a modernist sculpture but painstakingly crafted of cigar box wood. Seven stacked layers on the short sides, six on the long sides, nine on top and what looks to me like a total of 15 underneath. Lifting the lid, I was happy to find the original paper labels lining the interior of the