Vintage Tramp Art Wood Wall Cabinet Display Case with Mirror Front. Classic form with the pointed pyramid shapes throughout, a drawer at top, and three different storage spots behind the hinged mirror. 

Size: 7 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 25 in. 

Tramp art is a form of folk art popular from the 1870s to the 1940s, characterized by layering, notched, and chip-carved wood, typically made from repurposed cigar boxes and shipping crates. Often featuring geometric shapes, these decorative items were traditionally handmade using pocketknives. Although widespread use of wooden cigar boxes from the 1850s onward sparked the origins of tramp art, it was most prevalent during the Great Depression, and was made around the world although it first appeared in the United States. A 1959 article by Frances Lichten in Pennsylvania Folklife used the term “tramp work” to describe crafts constructed from waste materials such as discarded cigar boxes and assembled with a penknife, and contemporary scholars and art dealers have noted that while this art form may have been practiced among America’s itinerant population, it was by no means unique to them and was practiced by factory workers, farmers, and laborers in other occupations.

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