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Lot 129
Two Antique Inlaid Birds-Eye-Maple Boxes
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
19th century, including a fanciful inlaid jewelry box with rosewood field, interior with light blue liner having a divided lift tray; the second with abalone and mother of pearl inlays and ebony line inlay with a paper lined interior.

Larger 5.5 x 12 x 9 in.

From the Collection of Mary Wells, Greensboro, North Carolina

Fancy box with fill to center of lid (likely from a pull handle) and front panel (key hole), and with shrinkage crack to lid; the second box with line inlay lifting and scratch to front panel.