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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 9740904, member: 4654&quot;]This thread about the keep shape has made me think about what I buy and why. I hadn&#039;t really thought about it before but I do only look at 3 countries in Europe when I buy boxes, I wonder if it&#039;s just a lack of knowledge on my behalf. The only boxes that fit my buying criteria are the UK, France and Italy, I try and buy boxes that are very hard to recreate and if they are possible to recreate it would cost far more than it would be to buy a original one or someone would have to break the law ie use banned material or the skill involved has been lost to history. The above box is one of only a few antiques I own that doesn&#039;t meet the criteria although the cost of figured Coromandel wood is far more than I paid for the box. I&#039;ve seen antique collections be devalued by vast amounts in the past by fakes and didn&#039;t want to fall into that trap. Of course there are other countries in Europe that have boxes I would like to buy from earlier periods but these are very costly. Also art plays a big part of weather I buy a antique or not, someone said the other day on here antiques had fallen in price, I said in my experience they hadn&#039;t but plain well made antiques have just I hadn&#039;t noticed, 95% of my antiques have gone up in price and some I can&#039;t find for sale globally because nobody is selling them ATM or the prices are so high they are ridiculous, when I started collecting these antiques were easily affordable. Anyway (sorry for going on) the above box could be from Europe, I&#039;ve looked to try and find one like it but haven&#039;t managed it yet, my guess is English or Indian.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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