Elegant Antique Tramp Art Pedestal Box, Albany NY, with Ghostly Photos Inside, as Found folded paper composition from two big bellied suited

from two big bellied suited fellows on the first page (cover is missing) punningly titled (I believe) “close corporations” to a pair of fabulous articulated wooden dolls titled “Babes in the wood

one part butterfly

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

thicker board

Elegant Antique Tramp Art Pedestal Box, Albany NY, with Ghostly Photos Inside, as Found folded paper composition from two big bellied suitedA 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