Elegant Antique Tramp Art Pedestal Box, Albany NY, with Ghostly Photos Inside, as Found folded paper composition or storing NYC momentos:)

or storing NYC momentos:)

one part butterfly

with tiny tears to the top right and bottom left corners

thicker board

A wonderfully dreamy and also a bit (aptly) melancholic mid-century style etching

Elegant Antique Tramp Art Pedestal Box, Albany NY, with Ghostly Photos Inside, as Found folded paper composition or storing NYC momentos:)A 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