Intricately Interlocking Marvelous Crown of Thorns Lidded Tramp Art Box 1-10 at an antiques shop in

at an antiques shop in Columbia PA

it feels lot like a Carl Auböck piece--and he did a number of letter openers

as it has absorbed a bit of that

with some loss of stain to the base only

the home of the Ohio Department of the G

Intricately Interlocking Marvelous Crown of Thorns Lidded Tramp Art Box 1-10 at an antiques shop inMarvelous, in the literal sense I can't possibly imagine possessing the skill, let alone the patience, to construct a box like this, composed of many hundreds of interlocking bits, each carved of cigar box wood (with text visible on the sides of a few.) Marvelous too, how the lid interlocks perfectly with the lower box, a seamless fit, forming a perfect whole, which seems as if weightless and floating. I come across a lot of chip carved tramp boxes,