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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 1553980, member: 4654&quot;]I don&#039;t think mine is anywhere near as good as these examples but the theme of the inlay is very common for Indo-Portuguese, birds in potted trees seems like it was all the rage back then, I don&#039;t know when then was but I suspect around 1800. I did buy it thinking it was early Hoshiarpur but now I&#039;m sure it&#039;s not, it has a Spanish lock but it could well be a early Indian clasp lock, this example has the exact same lock as mine and they are saying Spanish <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/506266943/spanish-inlaid-bargueno-bone-inlay" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/506266943/spanish-inlaid-bargueno-bone-inlay" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/506266943/spanish-inlaid-bargueno-bone-inlay</a>&nbsp; This is another Spanish box with the same lock <a href="https://de-cor.com/products/spanish-inlaid-marquetry-bargueno?utm_campaign=Pinterest%20Buy%20Button&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Pinterest&amp;utm_content=pinterest-buy-button-09a827ed5-6fa8-4a3d-b2d0-eccdb1f2e77d" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de-cor.com/products/spanish-inlaid-marquetry-bargueno?utm_campaign=Pinterest%20Buy%20Button&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Pinterest&amp;utm_content=pinterest-buy-button-09a827ed5-6fa8-4a3d-b2d0-eccdb1f2e77d" rel="nofollow">https://de-cor.com/products/spanish-inlaid-marquetry-bargueno&nbsp; utm_campaign=Pinterest%20Buy%20Button&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Pinterest&amp;utm_content=pinterest-buy-button-09a827ed5-6fa8-4a3d-b2d0-eccdb1f2e77d</a></p><p><a href="https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/an-indo-portuguese-ivory-inlaid-casket-gujarat-or-sindh-5422073-details.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/an-indo-portuguese-ivory-inlaid-casket-gujarat-or-sindh-5422073-details.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/an-indo-portuguese-ivory-inlaid-casket-gujarat-or-sindh-5422073-details.aspx</a></p><p><a href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/howard-hodgkin-portrait-artist-l17120/lot.245.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/howard-hodgkin-portrait-artist-l17120/lot.245.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/howard-hodgkin-portrait-artist-l17120/lot.245.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.thecobbs.com/auction-2015-07-03-lot-129.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thecobbs.com/auction-2015-07-03-lot-129.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thecobbs.com/auction-2015-07-03-lot-129.html</a></p><p>The truth is I don&#039;t know <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /> yet another mystery to add to my collection lol[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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