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  1. My Favorite Treasures --Yes , a Malabar box is an Indian Dowry box - all of them seem to be so ornate - have not seen a plain one - Still not sure this wooden box is the same although same shape
  2. Granitewarenmore - I saw yours on eBay and exactly like the one I have - Identical One day we may find out - I do love the box -it is so unique -
  3. Kyrantango - that is similar but not the same -the one you found looks like a tea keeper with the partitions -
  4. Yes many reporductions- I trust nothing as being authentic made in other countries I guess these wooden boxes will remain a mystery but I love it anyway
  5. Tube amp- that is really beautiful -looked like the one on tv on table in tent with brass seams. But I wonder why a butcher like Sana Anna would have a dowry box unless it was just a setting piece...
  6. Still looking for another box like this and it's purpose -and I saw one on tv recently on the new show. Texas Rising --it was 1836 --Sana Anna while taking over Texas had one very similar on his tabl...
  7. Blunder - thanks for trying - this mystery may never be solved.
  8. Odessac - I agree they are much too plain and so undecorated -they seem to be a utility type box - they are not attractive enough to even be a jewelry box or any type of document box that anyone woul...
  9. Blunder - true -however I actually found my box inside the door of the garbage shoot at my apt complex- a small complex which has no Indian families - someone in this building was throwing it away ...
  10. Okay Blunder - I agree it does look like the Indian dowry --box but what is it doing in America unless it was from an Indian family or Pier one Imports lol
  11. blunderbuss2- thanks for checking around - I know the dowry box was the custom in foreign countries and expected , but not sure about America- this box looks post civil war or even ...
  12. Blunderbuss2-- thanks - it could be ---I feel it was some type of workman's case and it has a lock but is a heavy box and if loaded down ,would be difficult to carry around
  13. Ffhrjr2--- thanks for your input-- yes I know there was a time everyone was making pyramid style things but these wooden boxes look much older - the one pictured is actually not mine - mine does no...
  14. Odessac- it is the strangest thing -several of us have found these but no one can figure out what they were used for . They look very old to me and inside my lid someone has personalized it with the...
  15. cory2605 -i am still asking around because i really want to know what these boxes were used for -you would think antique dealers would know but they do not - will keep checking round til...
  16. Dooledork - a friend of mine from India said it looked like a dowry box to him but I am not sure they had them in this country --- and the ones in India are usually more ornamental ---- mine ha...
  17. Cory2605-- I wrote to a professor at Clemson University who is in the historic properties dept.-- he did not know either -- said it may be a box for some type of craftsman or surveyor someon...
  18. Valentino97 -- maybe so, but it has a place for a lock so has to be something valuable that some one would want locked --
  19. Cylines --- what do you think these boxes are used for ? -- are they real old ? mine looks like oak or walnut but does not have a green tint - no stamp only 3 hand written initials like...
  20. I have this same box - I found it today - exactly like yours - it looks very old and I can not find out what it was used for - I do not think it is hat box -
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