🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Help with wood box

[jtw1313]

Can anyone help with this little box? I cannot figure out the purpose. When you open the top the inside rises and the little door can open it has a slot in the bottom. There is also a little piece that lifts as well

 

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[pepperj]

Reminds me of a cigarette dispenser box

 

[boogeyman]

Reminds me of a cigarette dispenser box

Jewelry box. The slots are for rings. my grandfather had one similar covered in faux leather yours is a nicer one. Others I've seen had a piece of brass on the lid that had been ngraved with initials & one I assumed as a family crest. See if rhe slotted ring tray lifts out. Might be some paper money still tucked under it.

 

[jtw1313]

I don’t think it lifts out. How does it hold rings

 

[GoldieLocks]

Roladex or receive card box circa 1975?

 

[boogeyman]

I don’t think it lifts out. How does it hold rings

The ones I'm thinking had an insert made of foam that had slots & was covered in velvet. Kind of like the display boards Jewelry stores use. The insert might be missing if yours is what I'm thinking.