Great Antique Chip Carved Tramp Art Frame with Original Gold Paint stein There are some flea bites

There are some flea bites though on one post of the cage

With wonderfully hand-painted white letters popping against the black tank and equally perfect yellow carriage on trusty black wheels below

but are so great I couldn't not take responsibility for shepherding them into the future

the hands (and especially the curling fingers of the woman at left

with the pins arranged in a diamond formation

Great Antique Chip Carved Tramp Art Frame with Original Gold Paint stein There are some flea bitesI've become really enamored of the way the gold paint on old tramp art pieces like this softens and mellows with age in this case I think at least a hundred years time has resulted in mellow gold perfection. And it's a great frame to begin with five stacked, finely chipped carved layers on most of it, and several more on top of that at the corners. And on the backside, some text visible from the cigar box wood from which it was made. The hanger on