Old Hand-painted Ice Fishing Box with Excellent Red Lettering antique tramp art wall box Super rare to find

Super rare to find

I am completely taken with this little ringmaster (look at those pink cheeks

which seems to tell the story of a cash-strapped Caroline trying to make her way through her struggles

and it retains it original wrapped grass handle

Seems to me quite a good one for hanging next to the coffee maker

Old Hand-painted Ice Fishing Box with Excellent Red Lettering antique tramp art wall box Super rare to findMy guess is that this was the ice fishing tackle box of a boy of 13 or so who was also very into baseball, giving the "g" at the end of "Fishing" a very baseball uniform logo esque tail. The "ice" on the top, which makes me think of block ice and early Diary Queen and the like, is pretty fabulous too. I'm not sure if the third word on the lid is meant to read "gon'fishing" or is a last name, but either way this makes me purely happy. Plus three