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Joshua, I'm an old lady and grew up on a farm where granulated as we know it was a rarity until after WW2. We had a sugar chest that looked like the deep ones in the google and indeed it did lock. I may still have the sugar nips around here. Let me see if I can have a picture of the nips.

I think they are missing a part.
Patd

 

was your sugar block brown ..?

 

They had 2 types, dark & light, most people carried both. Guesses dark was for cooking /baking & light for coffee/teas? The sugar came in large "cones" where you needed those nippers to clip off chunks from the cone. Sugar was a big deal once upon a time in America & very valuable as well.

 

oh ho.....it's still a big deal......ever heard of Big Sugar ??

 

lol, well, you know, i am talking around the house! Where you hired a cabinetmaker & all that! Sugar chests are highly collectible these days & go for big numbers if a nice example.

 

so....like tea once was very expensive and fine holders were made to celebrate it....
kinda?

 

You mean Tea Caddy? Guesses very similar although tea caddy's are mostly an english thing i think. But yes! same kinda thing, we are SOMEBODY AND, we have tea & sugar! located in these finely crafted wood boxes!
Naturally these boxes were located front & center in family parlors so everyone could see them! or at least sugar chests were.

 

ya...that idea !

 

You get a sense of the value people placed on sugar by the way they stored it, these early 19th century cabinets/chests were hand made and expensive to build.