a Jewelry box i think

Guys here i have attached an image of a Jewelry box. but no clue of its origin. do you guys think its indian.

 

Are you sure it is a jewellery box? It looks like a snuff box. What is the size?
It does look Indian.

 

what is a snuff box? the dimensions are 15cmx6cm.

 

Much too big for snuff. I think it's simply an Indian brass embossed box for wotsits.

 

This is what it reminded me of, a Dutch snuff/tobacco box. The size is right, those wide Dutch trousers had big pockets.
It was used either for snuff tobacco, which would be taken through the nose, or rough/shag tobacco, to smoke.

 

I saw one similar to that at my local flea-market. Made of brass. Looked bloody old, and was very crudely hand-engraved. It was marked as a 17th or 18th century Dutch tobacco case or something along those lines. So yes, I'd say it's for tobacco or snuff.

BTW - a snuffbox is designed to hold 'snuff' (ground or powdered tobacco) which was typically taken by snorting it up the nose.

Most snuffboxes were quite small (about the size of a large matchbox is the largest I've seen), and made from anything from brass to ivory, mother of pearl...silver was extremely common, and usually gilt inside.

 

Hm. I'll accept the big snuff idea, but that almost cuneiform hand punching is very typically Indian.

 

hey thanks guys. thanks a lot.

 

this tobacco box was made by the firma dijkstra from Sneek in the 1920
the picture you see is the waterpoort of the city Sneek.
it has a mark on the bottum [friesche koper kunst or klaas dijkstra Sneek