Amazing Antique Sculptural Tramp Art Watch / Clock / Photograph Display nude sculpture a covered bridge

a covered bridge

really--that show lots of time and effort invested

giving the piece a great dynamism

especially for those painterly soft green leaves against puffy cloud filled sky reminding me of Arthur Wesley Dow

The cards are in great shape but the box--which measures 3 3/4" wide x 1 3/4" deep x 2 1/2" tall--shows its age

Amazing Antique Sculptural Tramp Art Watch / Clock / Photograph Display nude sculpture a covered bridgeWow! I am guessing this fantastic thing was made to hold a clock or pocket watch in the ring at center, though this photograph looks to have been there perhaps from the time it was completed, which I believe was at the very beginning of the 20th c. (The threaded silver ring holding the photo looks to me as it was made to flip up, but it doesn't do so easily and I'm a bit reluctant to try to force it in any event, it looks to me that a small round