Featured Nagina carving, a lost art

I'm sure every antique collector looks for incorrectly listed treasures in their field, what makes a good antique collector is having as many fields as they can, I now just look for quality, high end craftsmanship and expensive materials or expensive hardwear. The only thing that stops everybody doing this is fakes and reproductions, you have got to know what's right, that's where the years of learning about antiques comes in.
My brother once said to me "surely these sellers know what they have" when I told him I bought a valuable antique for little money, he was convinced he knew what he had and what it was worth, I asked him to go through his record collection that he had had since he was young and pull out the records that were worth over £50, he said "good point" lol

 

Wow. What a bargain!!

 

Yeah, I haven't done much with that yet, got all 9 rusted locks working and cut a key, replaced the back, ordered some funky velvet for the top cleaned it. I'm yet to strip or remove the top canvas or cut and replace the missing wood and then you've got all the finishing ect.
Anyway I bought this box the other day on a punt (I'm quite sure), what do you recon?

 

nice box......
what were the indentations for , on the right hand rim..?

 

It would have had a silver box lid stay.

 

my thoughts as well , but never seeing one , I'm still trying to imagine it..

what size is the box.........

 

It looks like it's missing some thin slices of wood on the inside, maybe to old correspondance.

 

It's 21cm 12 cm 16cm tall, here is a Sadeli box with the same stay's

 

10 Q !!

that's pretty neat !!!

 

Lol, it's missing more than that, it needs a total restoration but I couldn't let it pass, it wasn't a lot