Elaborate Antique Tramp Art Clock Case in Original Gold Paint red quill chicken black cloth tape was wrapped

black cloth tape was wrapped around one edge of the glass for easier (and safer) gripping--the latter of which comes off easily

but it's pretty terrific

Color all the richer in person

which may have something to do with it

I am no an expert on Santos

Elaborate Antique Tramp Art Clock Case in Original Gold Paint red quill chicken black cloth tape was wrappedClearly there is a missing stacked section at the front base of this antique tramp art clock case, and a few other little edge bits missing from the lid, but I think the form and construction is so beautiful I could not leave it. I especially love the roof, which lifts off (so that I assume, one could wind the clock that once lived inside), making the whole thing feel like a gothic house of sorts and revealing a lithographed portrait glued to the