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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Iconodule, post: 10288031, member: 91417&quot;][ATTACH=full]516079[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]516080[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]516081[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]516082[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]516083[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]516084[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]516085[/ATTACH] I think this is a Japanese moriage box. (I searched the internet for a long time until I found moriage, and I still have not seen anything just like it.)&nbsp; There is no country of origin backstamp, which makes me think it is before 1891. Inside the lid is a paper label, but whatever was on it has disappeared with time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I inherited it from my mother, but I never saw it around the house when I was growing up so I assume it was a later acquisition. As adults, my parents lived in Ohio, Florida, South Carolina, &amp; North Carolina. They lived for a year (1970) in Shropshire, England, where I think my mother acquired most of her china collection. My mother went to Asia (India, Thailand) and the Middle East (Egypt, Jordan) in 1967 with a Laubach Literacy Tour, but I do not know if they went to Japan. I doubt it, except as a stop over, because they went to areas with low literacy.&nbsp; My father was a Sea Bee in the US Navy during WWII (1941-45), including the Battle of Iwo Jima. I don&#039;t know if he was ever stationed in Japan at the end of the war, but I doubt he brought this back because I would have seen it during my childhood.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or maybe it is not Japanese at all. Mom gave me an English teapot with a bit or moriage decoration on it--but nothing like this. Any ideas?&nbsp; What is it?&nbsp; Where/when is it from?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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