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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 318696, member: 5066&quot;]Good point, especially in great britain, they were carving up a storm according to Jack Plane, an Irish cabinetmaker who worked in ireland &amp; england in the antique trade before retiring to Australia. I notice OP is from Ireland so very possible this box was carved somewhere in GB.</p><p>According to Jack who writes a blog i follow, this carving thing in victorian england reached rather epic &amp; hideous proportions.</p><p>&quot;In the Victorian era, middle- and upper classes prospered and many wealthy profligate gentlemen who, with nothing better to occupy their time, thought it amusing to roll up their starched white shirt sleeves, in imitation of the working class, and recklessly carve anything and everything around the home in the then fashionable Elizabethan and Jacobean revival taste.&quot;</p><p>For pic&#039;s here is link to blog post &amp; carving madness</p><p><a href="https://pegsandtails.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/picture-this-xxxix/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://pegsandtails.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/picture-this-xxxix/" rel="nofollow">https://pegsandtails.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/picture-this-xxxix/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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