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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9709946, member: 2844&quot;]They were made much earlier than that, and they&#039;re probably still made. I remember seeing them in the 1960s with Made in China labels, so those were not from Hongkong, which was still British at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The style, of dark wood with brass bats and butterflies, is that of Shanghai, but in the late 19th-early 20th century many Shanghai furniture manufacturers went to Hongkong. So these boxes could have been made in Hongkong as well as Shanghai.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aren&#039;t the camphor wood boxes a lighter colour and carved, like the camphor wood blanket chests?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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