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Posted 5 years ago
herbgrower
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Hello
This little box was purchased about 25 years ago in a small a antique shop in Virginia. It has been put away for a long time. I dont even remember what I paid for it.
Do any of you collectors know this particular pattern? What were these boxes designed for?
Thank you as always
Hergrower
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what are the dimensions?
possible papers for making cigarettes.... you know it seems a Carmen that brooch (it is difficult for me write in English), that of the Bizet Opera
Hi Kivatinitz,
2 inches wide
3 inches tall
Please explain Carmen and
Bizet Opera
Merci
Keramikos
Thank you for this
It helps me know a a great deal more than I did !
Herbgower
Kivatinitz,
Thank you
Herbgrower
it could be a matchbox as keramikos say, but I think that it is a cigarette case,
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Limoges-Rose-Floral-Flowers-Hinged-Trinket-Cigarette-Box-France-Transferware-/264273963938
https://picclick.com/VTG-ANTIQUE-LIMOGES-FRANCE-HINGED-cigarette-TRINKET-BOX-222742188881.html
Carmen is an opera about a woman working in Sevilla Spain into a cigarette factory, the metal part is a woman like Carmen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ_HHRJf0xg
Well you all are very good! This is so interesting. I've got some researching to do!
Herbgrower
Keramikos,
The INSIDE measurements are:
Lid - top to bottom ( height) -
1.7462 centimeters
Body below the lid - top to bottom -
2.222 centimeters
Thank You
Herbgrower
Maybe 4 cigarette papers? Or like you said just to sit up and look at as a trinket box?
Herb grower
Keramikos & Kivatinitz
So many thanks to you both.
Herbgrower
This could be something that held a sewing kit. At least some thread and a needle, right?!? IDK??? It could have also been meant to carry a cotton ball with perfume or something like that as well.
shareurpassion
Perhaps . I guess about anything is possible
it seems. Thank your so much for your response
Herbgrower