Crisp and Sharp Vintage Match Stick Tramp Art Lined Box with Inlays and Pedestal Base eclipse The basketry on all is

The basketry on all is finely done with sweet grass and ash splint

visible top edge of the paper

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”)

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

And this I think is just a wonderfully evocative image

Crisp and Sharp Vintage Match Stick Tramp Art Lined Box with Inlays and Pedestal Base eclipse The basketry on all isIt 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