Sweet Antique Morris D. Neumann & Co. Cigar Box Wood Tramp Art Box with Heart at Center egg-shaped wooden puzzle like an inverse of the

like an inverse of the front

I've since learned that the American Steel Wool Manufacturing Company that produced it--founded in 1896 by David Wolf in Greenwich

) measures 3 3/8" t x 2 1/8" w as point of reference

I am incapable of passing up good handmade tiny furniture

American eagle with shield above it

Sweet Antique Morris D. Neumann & Co. Cigar Box Wood Tramp Art Box with Heart at Center egg-shaped wooden puzzle like an inverse of theI don't hunt nearly as actively for tramp art boxes as I once did there are plenty of others who do but give me a box with a heart at the center of it, and I'll usually jump on it. The underside of this one, which I purchased in Nashville from a dealer based in Iowa who always has many things I love, shows it was crafted from a Morris D. Neumann 5 cent cigar box, a fairly rare one, dating it to the first decade of the 20th century I believe. I like