Crisp and Sharp Vintage Match Stick Tramp Art Lined Box with Inlays and Pedestal Base eclipse and that dealer had added

and that dealer had added this one (and a few other treasures

which one can tell from the numbers on the base (underside) of the bottle

I immediately fell in love with the remnants of painted decoration on it

And this I think is just a wonderfully evocative image

editor and art director of early fashion magazines “Le Style Parisien” (making Parisian fashion accessible to consumers in New York and London) and “Gazette du Bon Ton” (a higher brow “journal of good taste”)

Crisp and Sharp Vintage Match Stick Tramp Art Lined Box with Inlays and Pedestal Base eclipse and that dealer had addedIt has been a while since I found a match stick tramp art prison art creation I really liked, but then this handsome dresser box, found in Maine, which someone took great care making and feels like quite a proud thing. Feels almost classical in its aspirations, between those precise inlays and that pedestal base, with four feet attached to underside too, and then a clean, crisp navy blue fabric lining. (The lining seems original to me but I can't say