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Message:: [QUOTE="Joan, post: 9593179, member: 5398"]Your box is beautiful, davey. I hadn't thought of the possibility of my sister's box originally being a vanity box--you might be right.  The little loops look just like yours that hold manicure tools, but the little spaces for spools of thread seem almost too small and shallow for bottles. With the hidden pocket in the lid, there doesn't seem to be room for bottles any higher than the spools of thread laying on their sides (they're about the size of modern-day small spools of thread), so they'd have to be really tiny bottles.  Also, there's a little matching pink book-like thing that fits perfectly (with the spine showing) in the narrow slot next to the space for the notepad--and it has two flannel-like "pages" that are typically used to hold needles. I couldn't remove the two square pink lids (no loops to gab onto), but maybe there's something hidden under them. And I can't figure out what would have been stored in the long space with the hole in the center except maybe a thimble since it's a shallow space, but I don't know what the indentations at the ends are for. I found another box similar to my sister's on eBay that's called a sewing box. I wonder if similar boxes were made for both vanity and sewing items, and only the interiors were different.  Anyway, I really appreciate everyone's comments. [ATTACH=full]464639[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]