1911 Tramp Art Box with Chip Carved Stacks and Green-Gray Velvet sewer tile including the English translation of

including the English translation of Hesse's introduction and reproduction of all pages

very sturdy

though perhaps working out just the right border to draw

I love that there is a printed note inside the box noting that wood expands and contracts

I once had a set of San José Mission pottery plates of this same design

1911 Tramp Art Box with Chip Carved Stacks and Green-Gray Velvet sewer tile including the English translation ofI typically go for old tramp art boxes completely covered with chip carved layers, but I really like the velvet on the exterior of this one, which appears to be a soft gray green on a few of the sides and more of a gray blue elsewhere, but I think it is probably all the same fabric which just sun faded in different ways, very much to the good in my opinion. I think it all makes for a nice combination of Victorian and folky, but with nice clean lines