Featured Desk Box

Yes similar form but that QA box is clearly English, if you notice the butterfly hinges and lock plate on front. I am not aware of any english hinges that look like mine, not saying it couldn't be, just saying i haven't seen any.

 

I was speaking more to age than origin.

 

Hmmm, never considered Scandinavian but that is possible. Those hinges are heavy & riveted, unusual for such a small box.

Yeah well, i'd say box is late 18th C, the hardware kinda attest to that, the question is, who built it?

 

Lovely box, James.

I won't tell the Celtic Austrians and Swiss that you think of them as Germanic.
The Dutch are supposed to be Germanic, but since over 90% of the Dutch are of foreign descent, I am not so sure.

I have never seen a Dutch writing slope. The ones we get here are all English.

And you do that by showing an auction site called EEK?

Yes, it is a Norwegian site, and the box is painted in a traditional Norwegian way called 'rosemåling'.
James, the Norwegians are Germanic!

 

Hmmm, so you are saying with all that, the box is likely Norwegian?

 

I was gonna say something about that but didn't want to get THAT started again!

 

I have no idea, but if there is a convincing similarity between your beauty and the Norwegian rosemåling box, I wouldn't argue with that.

 

Bunch of dang foreigners, they have no idea who they are! Netherlanders/ Dutch people speak a "west Germanic Language" correct? CASE CLOSED! GERMAN!

I think the box is Scandinavian though, I'd say INH stumbled upon it, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now & then, correct?. J/K INH!
A box i found online with similar hinges & script

Period Tabletop Box, Bible Box, Original Red Paint, Strap Hinges, Molded
Likely Northern European, 18th Century
Hard pine

 

We call it an identity crisis.

Good enough for me.

No one touches inh, OK!

 

If you notice, seller says " Likely Northern European", which means, they have NO IDEA EITHER! Bunch of dang foreigners!

 

Maybe your box is having an identity crisis too.

 

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Noooooooooooooooo, the box knows EXACTLY who the people are who built it, the people OTOH..............

 

Agrees

 

Give it a break, James, it is an old box, and old boxes tend to forget...

 

Yeah is, my 1st grandson who is graduating HS this term, hard to believe, where does time go?

 

My thought would be Scandinavian as well. Have handles a lot of Scandinavian immigrant trunks with similar hinges.

 

Where does the time go??
Ask that box....if you think it knows so much !!
I'll bet it's Great Grand kids R all grown up too !!