Description
Leather Covered Storage Box
There must be a logical answer to what this box was intended to store . . . but I can’t work it out. It must have been something that was thin and relatively tall, but I don’t think it was made for matches which was the obvious product. I would have expected there to be some kind of abrasive surface on which the match could have been struck if this was the case. Maybe tooth picks, but I think it is too tall for those.
Mystery aside it is a handsome storage box and you could remove the inner quadrant divider to make it more useful.
Covered in red leather it has 4 dull brass studs to the top – these make the cover reminiscent of a die, so maybe the container was to do with gaming. Clutching at straws!
Measurements:
Height: 8.7cm
Diameter: 7.4cm