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<p>[QUOTE="808 raver, post: 9726599, member: 4654"]You know I'd never thought of it like that, I was sure these items were bought within India and I know of the same sort of items (horoshiapur) were sold in the UK by big London firms like Selfridges & liberty's but I did think they were only large items like tables because they were too large for tourists to take back on ships. To my knowledge small items like boxes were strictly only tourist ware but I could be wrong? When these labels first appeared I don't know but I do know when they stopped (1947) it's also the date India stopped using ivory. I will admit these labels are never on older horoshiapur or on boxes dating to the mid 19th c or before so my comment about labels isn't correct I should have said if it was pre 1947 and post 1900 it's likely to have a label but this style of chest wouldn't have been exported to another country back then even if it were old as plenty of chests like this were everywhere back then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="808 raver, post: 9726599, member: 4654"]You know I'd never thought of it like that, I was sure these items were bought within India and I know of the same sort of items (horoshiapur) were sold in the UK by big London firms like Selfridges & liberty's but I did think they were only large items like tables because they were too large for tourists to take back on ships. To my knowledge small items like boxes were strictly only tourist ware but I could be wrong? When these labels first appeared I don't know but I do know when they stopped (1947) it's also the date India stopped using ivory. I will admit these labels are never on older horoshiapur or on boxes dating to the mid 19th c or before so my comment about labels isn't correct I should have said if it was pre 1947 and post 1900 it's likely to have a label but this style of chest wouldn't have been exported to another country back then even if it were old as plenty of chests like this were everywhere back then.[/QUOTE]
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