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Message:: [QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 2706124, member: 8267"]I don't think we know what vintage Aquitaine's box might be, although the fancy beckets would seem to suggest earlier rather than later. Just following the trails...... If such boxes were clearly used in the late 19th century, it does not seem unreasonable to believe they were also used during the time of sail. Perhaps this book would shed some light, although I don't have a copy (yet):Jack Tar: A Sailor's Life 1750-1910 - Marine Art & Antiques. Joseph Welles Henderson & Rodney P. Carlisle. Antique Collectors Club, 1999.ISBN 1851493263"Over the years, Welles Henderson, the author of this intriguing book, noted that the majority of maritime museums throughout the world placed their emphasis on ship paintings, ship models, figureheads, navigation equipment, nautical tools and weapons but gave little insight into the daily life of the ordinary sailor. For over four decades, therefore, he has been collecting material in an attempt to fill the gap. This has been a great challenge as comparatively few real-life depictions of shipboard activities and the life of a sailor at sea were made during the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth century. There are countless ship portraits but very little of the human interest side of the sailor afloat. While many well-known expeditions, including that of Captain James Cook, had artists accompany them, practically all their depictions were of flora, fauna, landscapes and local inhabitants rather than of shipboard life. Finding a piece here and a piece there, however, Welles Henderson has painstakingly succeeded in putting together a fascinating mosaic of the life of a sailor from the time of his going off to sea until his death on board or on shore."[/QUOTE]

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