Great Antique Chip Carved Tramp Art Frame with Original Gold Paint vintage finger puppets Light rusting but overall very

Light rusting but overall very good condition

is just terrific

so finely woven of bear grass and cedar bark--and this is a lovely example in great condition

Hardback with cloth spine and hand-marbled paper cover

Great Antique Chip Carved Tramp Art Frame with Original Gold Paint vintage finger puppets Light rusting but overall veryI've become really enamored of the way the gold paint on old tramp art pieces like this softens and mellows with age in this case I think at least a hundred years time has resulted in mellow gold perfection. And it's a great frame to begin with five stacked, finely chipped carved layers on most of it, and several more on top of that at the corners. And on the backside, some text visible from the cigar box wood from which it was made. The hanger on