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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucille.b, post: 3945192, member: 51&quot;]Thinking this is just a decorative vintage piece with not a lot of age, but please wait for others.&nbsp; It is a cute box and you can&#039;t go wrong with cats.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are selling, I think the tag linking it to the famous antique shop might possibly add value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Googling Charlotte Horstmann Gerald Godfrey, below is a link to a NYT article.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/24/travel/hong-kong-s-antiques-treasure-trove.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/24/travel/hong-kong-s-antiques-treasure-trove.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/24/travel/hong-kong-s-antiques-treasure-trove.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I just scanned the 1984 article, but it sounded like they sold all levels of items, here is a paragraph:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Stocking objects that will appeal to all types of shoppers appears to pose no problem for the owners. There are, for example, such souvenir-type objects as Japanese cherrywood boxes about the size of a pack of cigarettes, which are $5, and shards of export Ming porcelain from sunken ships found in the Gulf of Siam, which are framed on silver. They range in price from $15 to $80.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>So it could be that it was sold decoratively and not a true antique.&nbsp; The fact that the label is sort of glued on to the base so firmly to last all these years makes me think maybe this was something even newer when purchased.&nbsp; Would the store glue a label onto a wooden antique?&nbsp;&nbsp; Just thinking out loud, but please wait for others, or do additional research as I&#039;m really just guessing.</p><p><br /></p><p>It has a nice look and some cat lover would pounce on it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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