Tramp Art Sewing Box

Canadian. A tramp art dresser/sewing box with relief-carved and stippled panels and sunflowers. The side panels are also relief-carved, showing two deer on one side and a cross within a shield on the other. The back of the box has two carved flowers and a secret drawer concealed by the base frame molding (a screw in the bottom locks the drawer), and the top has the original pincushion still intact. In original crazed varnish surface. Ex. Chris Huntington collection. Nova Scotia. 1900-1920. Initialled, "O.S.", front.

Estimate:£213.04

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