Unusual Antique Two Tiered Tramp Art Box with Pedestal Base and Handsome Champions! vegetable ivory carving mounted to a black piece

mounted to a black piece of card via five carefully laid horizontal strips of scotch tape

Some ingrained dirt

I'd keep him out of the hot sun

and also the idea that one might choose a star of the East (as well as a star of the West

Unusual Antique Two Tiered Tramp Art Box with Pedestal Base and Handsome Champions! vegetable ivory carving mounted to a black pieceThe first thing I found on a quick trip to Pennsylvania this past week, and one of my favorites not your average tramp art box, and, actually, two boxes, with the top tier its own self contained box, which sits atop the unlidded pedestal box below (which itself can be flipped on its head, pedestal end up, to allow for a different configuration.) With a unique combination of decorative chipped carved elements on each side, a heart marking the opening