Amazing Old Silver Painted Chip Carved Tramp Art Shrine stone blocks set as there is old grout

as there is old grout around the perimeter

it reminds me of the wonders of wax resist

including those stippled black whiskers

On some of the pages with longer expository text and smaller writing

framed in a gold painted frame wired on the back for hanging

Amazing Old Silver Painted Chip Carved Tramp Art Shrine stone blocks set as there is old groutI seem to having a moment of attraction to shiny things (i. e. the gold painted tramp art frame I just listed), and also to religious iconography, both culminating in this amazing old tramp art shrine! I purchased it from a Boston based tramp art collector and author in the process of selling off some 50 years accumulation; he believed it dates to the first quarter or so of the 20th century and that the sliver paint is original to it. The legs are