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2. Tunbridge ware - Wikipedia

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   Shaped rods and slivers of wood were first carefully glued together, then cut into many thin slices of identical pictorial veneer with a fine saw. Elaborately striped and feathered bandings for framing were pre-formed in a similar fashion. There is a collection of Tunbridge ware in the Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery in Tunbridge Wells. [1]

3. Casket (decorative box) - Wikipedia

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   A casket [1] is a decorative box or container that is usually smaller than a chest and is typically decorated. In recent centuries they are often used as boxes for jewelry, but in earlier periods they were also used for keeping important documents and many other purposes. [2] Many ancient caskets are reliquaries, for both Buddhist and Christian ...

4. Decorative box - Wikipedia

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   Boxes made for the poorer snuff taker were more ordinary; popular and cheap boxes were made in papier-mâché and even potato-pulp, which made durable boxes that kept the snuff in good condition. Alloys that resembled gold or silver were developed in the 18th and 19th centuries such as the ersatz gold Pinchbeck and the silver look-alike ...

5. Wooden box - Wikipedia

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   Wooden box with full cleated ends (Style 2) Man with wooden box or chest, 1625. A wooden box is a container made of wood for storage or as a shipping container. Construction may include several types of wood; lumber (timber), plywood, engineered woods, etc. For some purposes, decorative woods are used.

6. File:Eichwald Trinket box, 9.4ins., coloured glazes, c.1890 ...

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7. Tansu - Wikipedia

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   Because the chests/boxes often needed to be carried by itinerant salesmen, they were often constructed with light-weight kiri (paulownia), [3] or sugi (cedar) wood, and utilized iron hardware only sparingly. [8] Nagamochi kuruma-dansu These coffers on wheels are the oldest documented example of Japanese mobile cabinetry.