Nice 1914 Chip Carved Tramp Art Lidded Pedestal Box with Great Dry Wood Patina Cheney Clapp good behavior with tons of character

with tons of character

Signed "Maya" on the underside

I think it has many good years left

Sold in the simple

Nice 1914 Chip Carved Tramp Art Lidded Pedestal Box with Great Dry Wood Patina Cheney Clapp good behavior with tons of characterIn 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