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Box of Delights

I recently bought this box and have been restoring it, but I can’t find any of the small ring-style handles and the surrounds. Could anybody help? Also, I was wondering if someone could tell me what it was used for, as it has small rollers alongside the compartments.

Ros Stretton, Burton-on-Trent

What you have is part of a sewing box: it’s either an internal lift-out tray, or the base of a box that’s lost its lid. The spools were for thread or lace and the compartments would have stored thimbles, needles, a pin cushion and all the other