Thick Antique Chip Carved, Gold Painted Tramp Art Cross old handmade cloth doll and grass underfoot

and grass underfoot

No mallets included

I really love the capital letter handwriting on the captions

P Kuchlar and is addressed to an Otto Kuchler

) I believe this particular basket may have been made by Marjorie Abbey Battise

Thick Antique Chip Carved, Gold Painted Tramp Art Cross old handmade cloth doll and grass underfootIf ever there were a tramp art cross that seemed to express unwavering faith, I think it's this so thickly stacked and solid it feels quite invincible. And indeed its the form that I really love about it, with all of those chip carved layers creating a really wonderful geometry, and when laid on its side it looks almost like a piece of architecture. Old, nicely mellowed gold paint, I believe original to it, with some traces of an aqua blue on top that