Unusual Antique Two Tiered Tramp Art Box with Pedestal Base and Handsome Champions! vegetable ivory carving the other unpainted

the other unpainted

Another find of the week all about a dog--and what a lot of love whoever made this had for their pup (a white Spitz

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

which is grayish brown

Surface cracks (more pronounced in photos than in person) small ding and some flaws indigenous to the stone and to the carving as documented

Unusual Antique Two Tiered Tramp Art Box with Pedestal Base and Handsome Champions! vegetable ivory carving the other unpaintedThe 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