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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 392209, member: 111&quot;]Was rushed when I wrote that post (and still am), also meant to say you did a lovely job with the lining, the cord and tassels are a nice touch.&nbsp; I managed a high-end luggage and fine gifts shop through most of the &#039;80s and developed a weakness for leather goods... </p><p><br /></p><p>Years ago (not pre-internet, but before there was so much info), a friend of a friend asked me about one of these that had been in her family for well over a hundred years, stamped with her great-grandmother&#039;s name - she was &#039;Old South&#039;, but to the best of my recollection the tradition of a &#039;key basket&#039; being passed down came from Europe, and were not particularly uncommon in the 19th century, but the leather ones, made by harness-makers, were a southern tradition.&nbsp; Would an English butler perhaps keep the household keys in a basket too?</p><p><br /></p><p>This link shows one that was lined with fabric, noted as unusual:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.christopherhjones.com/key-basket/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.christopherhjones.com/key-basket/" rel="nofollow">https://www.christopherhjones.com/key-basket/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This one, similar, though nicer than the one I researched, is in the &#039;Germanic Objects&#039; of the collection, and suggests the baskets were also prison-made:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.janekatchercollection.com/html/keybasket.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.janekatchercollection.com/html/keybasket.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.janekatchercollection.com/html/keybasket.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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