Great Antique Chip Carved Tramp Art Frame with Original Gold Paint stein This very sweet little hand-carved

This very sweet little hand-carved puzzle cross is harder than it looks

as well as two sets of initials

There are some flea bites though on one post of the cage

with the pins arranged in a diamond formation

The sculpture measures 16 1/4" tall

Great Antique Chip Carved Tramp Art Frame with Original Gold Paint stein This very sweet little hand-carvedI've become really enamored of the way the gold paint on old tramp art pieces like this softens and mellows with age in this case I think at least a hundred years time has resulted in mellow gold perfection. And it's a great frame to begin with five stacked, finely chipped carved layers on most of it, and several more on top of that at the corners. And on the backside, some text visible from the cigar box wood from which it was made. The hanger on