Sweet Antique Morris D. Neumann & Co. Cigar Box Wood Tramp Art Box with Heart at Center desk tool I've become pretty enamored of

I've become pretty enamored of these turned and painted wooden apples--made in Japan for the Western market-- which often housed roulette style horse racing games or miniature wooden tea sets

and I thought they would make great pedestals though they are also pretty nice sculptural objects just on their own

1906-1987)

among the most beautiful readymades I've ever seen

Sweet Antique Morris D. Neumann & Co. Cigar Box Wood Tramp Art Box with Heart at Center desk tool I've become pretty enamored ofI don't hunt nearly as actively for tramp art boxes as I once did there are plenty of others who do but give me a box with a heart at the center of it, and I'll usually jump on it. The underside of this one, which I purchased in Nashville from a dealer based in Iowa who always has many things I love, shows it was crafted from a Morris D. Neumann 5 cent cigar box, a fairly rare one, dating it to the first decade of the 20th century I believe. I like