Lovely Old Three Stars Matchstick Tramp Art Plaque antique pewter snuff box and lending themselves to all

and lending themselves to all sorts of arrangements

) It's done in pencil on a the pale green backside of shiny silver paper

but what really sold me on it is the whittled ends of the handles

though I'd guess he was meant to be a knight

a few pencil marks

Lovely Old Three Stars Matchstick Tramp Art Plaque antique pewter snuff box and lending themselves to allSometimes matchstick tramp art can feel a bit kitschy, but this is really something else entirely. No burnt ends, no varnish over top, just the beautifully irregular linear patterns of the cut matchsticks laid down end to end, one after the other, interrupted only by the simple outlines of three stars. All having acquired a gorgeous warm dry wood patina that, together with the geometries, makes it feel almost like a painting, and it is actually Jasper