Featured Name on box.

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  1. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    I got this nice old hardwood box, it has a name etched into MOP on the top but I'm struggling to make it out.

    J.H or J.K. ?????CH
    Leeds

    Any ideas.

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    daveydempsey, Nov 9, 2021
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  2. LauraGarnet02

    LauraGarnet02 Well-Known Member

    I get Finch for the last name.
     
    LauraGarnet02, Nov 9, 2021
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  3. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Yes, Finch.

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    Debora, Nov 9, 2021
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  4. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Too many letters. J K French? The last word looks like "seeds". Seed packets probably, although this looks like a card box.
     
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  5. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Leeds. Not seeds.

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  6. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    The internet has a J.K. Finch as professor of Engineering at the Department of Mining, University of Leeds in 1919.

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  7. daveydempsey

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    its definately Leeds, which is 60 miles from me.
     
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  8. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    You don't give the size. Could it be a cigarette box?

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  9. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Yes , cigarettes or cigarillos, 7" long x 3" wide and 2" deep.
    However it does have a working lock, which is unusual for cig boxes.
     
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  10. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Is the box British? The wood looks as if it might be tropical.

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  11. Robert Ransom

    Robert Ransom Well-Known Member

    Looks like J. K. Finch to me, although the "F" is puzzling because of the bold vertical drop before the next letter.
     
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  12. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Made in Britain but a tropical wood, I'll find out in a few days when I visit my wood expert.
     
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  13. sabre123

    sabre123 Well-Known Member

    Marijuana? :cigar::cigar::hilarious:
     
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  14. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    J. K. French Leeds?

    There was a J. K. French of Blenheim Terrace, Leeds.

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  15. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Nice address. A bit earlier. I find him there in 1849.

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  16. ulilwitch

    ulilwitch Well-Known Member

    I am outnumbered. I don't know what type of box this is but I would have guessed
    T. H. or G. H. French.
     
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  17. daveydempsey

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    The box is made from Rosewood.
     
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