Marvelous Old Folded Paper Tramp Art Lidded Box inlaid wood jewelry box great weight

great weight

and which someone very diligently collected to have all 25 that were issued

36 pages filled front and back with just a couple of exceptions

and this is a beauty—as simple and honest as can be

Marvelous Old Folded Paper Tramp Art Lidded Box inlaid wood jewelry box great weightI believe I have NEVER seen another folded paper wrapper box I like as much as this one; the color on this is truly fantastic. I'd guess it is a mix of different sorts of wrappers that were used, folded one by one around bits of cardboard arranged in strata, and whoever made it had a really great eye in addition to investing a great deal of labor and care into every inch of it. I mostly pass these sorts of boxes as they can feel sort of one note, but