Intricately Interlocking Marvelous Crown of Thorns Lidded Tramp Art Box 1-10 operates smoothly and spins fast

operates smoothly and spins fast

it feels lot like a Carl Auböck piece--and he did a number of letter openers

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with a few of the pulls it appears having been replaced over time

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Intricately Interlocking Marvelous Crown of Thorns Lidded Tramp Art Box 1-10 operates smoothly and spins fastMarvelous, in the literal sense I can't possibly imagine possessing the skill, let alone the patience, to construct a box like this, composed of many hundreds of interlocking bits, each carved of cigar box wood (with text visible on the sides of a few.) Marvelous too, how the lid interlocks perfectly with the lower box, a seamless fit, forming a perfect whole, which seems as if weightless and floating. I come across a lot of chip carved tramp boxes,