Joanna's and Mary's Much Battered and Embellished New Merrill Speller tramp art match box I believe) tramp art box

I believe) tramp art box shows some damage and losses

and a couple of scratches near top center of the sky (see detail photos)--neither particularly visible when inside the frame

Signed with what I think is PM on the bottom

and setting them proudly before H

but I also love a more unusual hand-carved box with a tramp-y flavor

Joanna's and Mary's Much Battered and Embellished New Merrill Speller tramp art match box I believe) tramp art boxI don't think I'll get over my great love of much personalized old school books any time soon, and will keep buying them when I find them, whether anyone else wants them or so! This battered c. 1920s speller, which includes both the names Mary Kerrvck and Johanna Babbit inside, is missing a couple of pages as front, has a spine reinforced with black cloth tape, and is annotated with pencil throughout. What I love most are the drawings on the inside