Elegant Antique Tramp Art Pedestal Box, Albany NY, with Ghostly Photos Inside, as Found copper tray including at the voting booth

including at the voting booth

3 7/8" across at lip

with just a bit of wear/loss of white paint--plus some white paint spatters on his wooden legs

and small losses at bottom corners and a fold to bottom right corner

(Clearly he's built for scissors a bit smaller than the large ones I photographed him with

Elegant Antique Tramp Art Pedestal Box, Albany NY, with Ghostly Photos Inside, as Found copper tray including at the voting boothA 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