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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 454219, member: 2844&quot;]I&#039;m with Fid on the chamois horn on the lid. A dainty dark horn with an elegant curve is typical chamois. The other bits look like roe antler.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the box was made in the late 19th century in Brienz, in Switzerland. Brienz is where a lot of &#039;Black Forest&#039; carvings were made, but they also made beautiful pyrography boxes. Brienz boxes often have those flat square feet that stick out a bit. And they combined carvings with horns and antlers. Being in an alpine region they had access to both chamois and roe.</p><p><br /></p><p>It could be from the jura, but I know the term &#039;Style Sapin&#039; as a name for a specific Swiss-French Art Nouveau style. It originated in La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Swiss part of the Jura region and is famed for the stylised designs of firs and other trees:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://img.nzz.ch/S=W180/O=75/http://nzz-img.s3.amazonaws.com/2016/8/4/9629083b-a31c-4ab9-93bf-4205787aca02.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This book also explains &#039;Le Style Sapin&#039; as an Art Nouveau style, which looks slightly different from the more realistic fir cones on the box. The box could possibly be a fore-runner of &#039;Le Style Sapin&#039;.</p><p><a href="http://www.somogy.fr/wp-content/uploads/Style-sapin.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.somogy.fr/wp-content/uploads/Style-sapin.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.somogy.fr/wp-content/themes/somogy/php/timthumb.php?src=http://www.somogy.fr/wp-content/uploads/Style-sapin.jpg&amp;w=630" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.somogy.fr/livre/le-style-sapin?ean=9782850569425" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.somogy.fr/livre/le-style-sapin?ean=9782850569425" rel="nofollow">http://www.somogy.fr/livre/le-style-sapin?ean=9782850569425</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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