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tramp art

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Definition of tramp art

: a style of wood carving flourishing in the U.S. from about 1875 to 1930 that is characterized by ornate layered whittling often of cigar boxes or fruit crates; also : an object carved in this style

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Summerland's Lillie Avenue flows past garden shops, continental antiques stores, and Just Folk, one of the West Coast's best galleries for American crafts and tramp art.

— david keeps, ELLE Decor, "ELLE DECOR Goes to Coastal California," 11 May 2011

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1974

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