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Message:: [QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 6923484, member: 10944"]Anyone familiar with Coombs Boynton & Finlay? London based firm. Probably 19th c. Suppose could be late 18th or into early 20th. I had found a snippet from some old city files or newspaper entry or something but can’t find my old research. Now I’m not seeing anything come up. I have this neat little box or jar. I thought it was an early plastic the first time I saw it but now I’m quite sure it’s turned wood. Burl of some type maybe? No idea what it was for. Looks like some type of resinous build up on interior lid. Very nicely made though so I’m guessing it held something of value. 2” across or so. Wish it weren’t cracked but still a neat little thing. Most of the things at the estate were post civil war but this strikes me as earlier. It was one families multi generational hoardings all the way back to civil war era. Stuff they owned, not just collectors acquired stuff. Things they actually acquired in the era they were made and stored in the families home that’s been owned since then. It’s neat to see those places and things.  [ATTACH=full]421002[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]421003[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]421004[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]421005[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]421006[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]