Earl McDonald's Marvelous Red Cross Box antique tramp art cabinet with great graphics

with great graphics

and thought how handy one of these would be to keep one of these in one's flea market bag

but found the fraktur along with three pages from Flora's Lexicon

Cork and Belfast

14" long x 5 1/16" t and done on 1/4" particle board with holes at top and bottom center for hanging

Earl McDonald's Marvelous Red Cross Box antique tramp art cabinet with great graphicsIf there were ever a perfect logo or emblem, to my mind it is the Red Cross, and seeing it painted over and over and in lush red paint against white on this great old box is to my eye about as satisfying as it gets. This beauty was the work of an Earl McDonald, who painted his last name along the edge of the top and then carved his full name into the underside of the top inside. I'm guessing he was indeed a medic, with an illustration demonstrating