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Message:: [QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 1792353, member: 111"]Red cedar boxes like the OP's are usually from the 1920s-'50s, as the ads posted indicate, and they were also sometimes used for cigars, but more often had a label inside the lid (though some did have mirrors), as well as tax stamps, but labels and stamps could be removed - if I recall correctly, the 'Spanish cedar' typically used for tobacco goods boxes was in short supply for a time.  Generally, the smaller souvenir cedar boxes seem to date more from after WWII and later, I can remember seeing them new into the '70s, and they were likely made past that.  Of course, simple cedar boxes/chests are still being produced, and most of the time, the hardware is pretty similar to the old pieces (when my Aussie Syd was cremated ten years ago, her ashes came back in a cedar box). My Mom had one from her childhood in the '30s, quite plain, but with amber glass marbles for feet - coveted it when I was little (it was those pretty feet), and she finally gave it to me when I was in my early teens.  Most are packed away, but have picked up at least two or three dozen more cedar boxes over the years, because, well, I just can't pass up a cheap wooden box... Here are a few souvenir trinket boxes, measuring from 4.25" to 8" long, two stamped for Texas, one for Springfield, Illinois, and one for California, the one with the small plastic cameo was made by J.B. Deere Cedarcraft (Missouri business from the late '40s into at least the '90s): [ATTACH=full]240112[/ATTACH] This is my latest $1.50 box, not much age to it, 5" x 9.5", with a shallow Northwest Coast style carving, signed 'Three Turtle' with Sharpie inside: [ATTACH=full]240113[/ATTACH] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]

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