Featured A fine example of a Vizagapatam box in poor condition

I have posted this before but the photos weren't good, I did mean to post photos of some other boxes you haven't seen but they didn't come out well.

 

I would hesitate to say poor condition....
as the vast majority of that box still looks .....in excellent condition....

still , a stunner !!!!!

 

1. OW! The poor thing!
2. (stuffs it into her bag)

That's freakin' gorgeous even with the damage.

 

not sure how it fits in your bag.....with my hand holding on to it...

 

And Raver saying "Hands off, that's mine!"

 

Thank you, but hands off

 

Lol

 

You wouldn't believe the only other photos that came out well today are of another box I've already posted but the photos are amazing so I'll show them. BTW I did 20 boxes 2 came out well and 18 are all blurred and look terrible.

 

This is an example

 

Somebody did a crazy amount of work, making that.

 

Some of the woodworking undertaken in India between 1500-1900 is just breath-taking and unbelievable. I'm a woodworker myself (not a woodcarver) and I know how hard this must have been, today nobody produces work like this, not even close. It took months and months of a very skilled person to produce these works, just imagine how much they would cost today.

 

I'm mostly a crafter, but I wouldn't want even PAINT that design never mind carve it. The box should be worth thousands. I'd bet you got it for cheap because no one pays what handwork ought to be worth.

 

I think I paid between £40-£60 for the Vizagapatam box many years ago and the Nagina (ebony) box I paid around £90 a few years later, these days both are quite sort after, the Vizagapatam box might be by a very good maker but the condition is bad so I don't really know what it would fetch but today they are well recognised as works of art and growing in price. Maybe £500-£700 each but if the Vizagapatam box was in top condition you could easily add a zero to that figure.

 

IOW beginning to be worth what it should have been worth all along. Too bad for you that someone caught on.