."..distinctive kind of wood carving by using only pocket knives and found wood. Hobo carvings were often a variation of the ball-in-cage, a loose ball carved inside a wooden frame from which it could not be removed, and linked chains carved from a single piece of wood. Tramp art often had chip-carved pieces from wooden cigar boxes layered on larger objects as decoration....Instructions for the basics of hobo and tramp art carving as well as many color photographs of new and antique pieces from Vandertie's collections."-- ...
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."..distinctive kind of wood carving by using only pocket knives and found wood. Hobo carvings were often a variation of the ball-in-cage, a loose ball carved inside a wooden frame from which it could not be removed, and linked chains carved from a single piece of wood. Tramp art often had chip-carved pieces from wooden cigar boxes layered on larger objects as decoration....Instructions for the basics of hobo and tramp art carving as well as many color photographs of new and antique pieces from Vandertie's collections."-- "LJ . 128 pages (all in color), 8 x 10.
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