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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9740789, member: 2844&quot;]I checked my one French box, and it does indeed have a round lock keep.</p><p>Surprisingly, I also found one Dutch early Amsterdam School box with a round keep. But all my other Dutch boxes have square/rectangular keeps. Most are older than the Amsterdam School one, but one is 1920s Art Deco, so later. So the choice of a round keep in the Netherlands wasn&#039;t a period thing. Maybe the lock on that one box was salvaged from a French box.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So it isn&#039;t so much that Continental boxes have round keeps, more that French and Italian boxes have that (and possibly some others).</p><p>So maybe we shouldn&#039;t rule out Central Europe just yet? I was thinking Germany or Austria.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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