Old Hand-painted Ice Fishing Box with Excellent Red Lettering antique tramp art wall box Super rare to find

Super rare to find

and 1 box of twenty 8 3/4" x 7 5/8" "Small Parquetry Designs III"

The paper tag pinned to her dress is partially torn

Seems to me quite a good one for hanging next to the coffee maker

lovingly constructed of tin with its original glass in three of the four top level windows

Old Hand-painted Ice Fishing Box with Excellent Red Lettering antique tramp art wall box Super rare to findMy guess is that this was the ice fishing tackle box of a boy of 13 or so who was also very into baseball, giving the "g" at the end of "Fishing" a very baseball uniform logo esque tail. The "ice" on the top, which makes me think of block ice and early Diary Queen and the like, is pretty fabulous too. I'm not sure if the third word on the lid is meant to read "gon'fishing" or is a last name, but either way this makes me purely happy. Plus three