Elegant Antique Tramp Art Pedestal Box, Albany NY, with Ghostly Photos Inside, as Found antique ledger index but the skull side is

but the skull side is in very good shape

) Maybe more likely a pocket warmer  for a large pocket or to fit inside a cover and warm the bed

One ear mended with glue

NY (what a great name

Elegant Antique Tramp Art Pedestal Box, Albany NY, with Ghostly Photos Inside, as Found antique ledger index but the skull side isA beauty. I've gotten so that I like tramp art boxes that are either very minimalist, or very maximalist, and this one perfectly embodies why the former, feeling like a modernist sculpture but painstakingly crafted of cigar box wood. Seven stacked layers on the short sides, six on the long sides, nine on top and what looks to me like a total of 15 underneath. Lifting the lid, I was happy to find the original paper labels lining the interior of the