Out there in COLLECTORland there is a myriad of 'small boxes' being collected. These small boxes are but a tiny taste of what's out there when you focus on horn and bone as a material. There's an essay that might be written on each box and their cultural context let alone their 'placedness'. After that there are longish, rich and 'deep histories' invested in each that only rarely get to attach themselves to small boxes of other material – tin, plastic, wood, whatever. Little boxes tend to contain 'treasures', like the making for fire, but when the material is treasured, and when it's invested with its own stories, the 'preciousness' gets to be turned up a notch or two.
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Antique Scottish Snuff Box
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Antique French Snuff Box
Contemporary horn & bone laminated jewellery Box
Antique Scottish Snuff Box
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