Elegant Antique Tramp Art Pedestal Box, Albany NY, with Ghostly Photos Inside, as Found copper tray there is a mark for

there is a mark for Allen Bros

and a wire loop that comes up through a cut in the wood of the top to meet a small brass hook

The wheat sheaf was certainly a common motif for butter molds

a hub for weaving since pre-Inca times

ribbon tied notebook of "pen and pencil pictures" by a young Lillian Trafton

Elegant Antique Tramp Art Pedestal Box, Albany NY, with Ghostly Photos Inside, as Found copper tray there is a mark forA 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