1911 Tramp Art Box with Chip Carved Stacks and Green-Gray Velvet jointed wood but happily he also gained

but happily he also gained a nice steel mend to one hip which

and "Abandon Evil Company" (in wonderful gothic lettering) are pages of individual letters and numbers and

located inside the Allegany Indian Reservation

5" tall x 3" wide and deep

1911 Tramp Art Box with Chip Carved Stacks and Green-Gray Velvet jointed wood but happily he also gainedI typically go for old tramp art boxes completely covered with chip carved layers, but I really like the velvet on the exterior of this one, which appears to be a soft gray green on a few of the sides and more of a gray blue elsewhere, but I think it is probably all the same fabric which just sun faded in different ways, very much to the good in my opinion. I think it all makes for a nice combination of Victorian and folky, but with nice clean lines