Featured My Card, Sir!...And the case to go with it :P

That elbow in your ribs, Skeezix, was ME!

 

Hi,
I have a tiny box that opens. It is 1½" by 1¼". no marks. Is it for stamps or dimes?? It is ¼" thick.
greg

 

Whoa doggies, Davey, there are some absolute beauties on that link, and in a quick look it seemed that "most" of them had not been monogrammed.

 

I've had a group of calling cards, circa 1880s, with pretty chromolithograph images that were salesman sample cards. The sizes and proportions varied somewhat.

 

1. Davy. Yes, it's a real Zippo, and yes, it's a card-case.
2. Those prices are in pounds sterling. An Australian dollar is about 50p at the moment (or actually a bit less than that). So I'd be paying double whatever price is quoted on eBay UK. Not so affordable now, is it?
3. Silly people ask silly money. And will always do so. The best we can do is laugh at them. I know I do.
4. Card-sizes varied depending on who owned them and what they used them for. These days, they're pretty standard, but from what research I've done, in the past, there were LOADS of variations.

 

Or, perhaps for saccharine. All kinds of pretty containers were used when that craze began. (On the table, I used a master salt. )

 

Hi,
Perhaps a pill box. I know it made pre Civil War since it was my great great grandmother's.
greg

 

It looks impractical as a pillbox, but what do I know... neat item, though.

 

I have to ask - what kind of pills would've been stored in pill-boxes? Why are they so small?

I have a little brass pillbox, which I keep breath-mints inside...

 

Pillboxes were designed to be carried around generally outside the home in a purse or pocket.

One specific prescription pill which should be carried around with a person possibly needing it when away from his/her home (where the needed prescription pills are already stored) is a nitroglycerin sublingual tablet. That particular pharmaceutical formulation has been used for many, many years.

 

Greg,I wonder if that was ....damn my brain...you know,they kept little sponges soaked with perfume for when they were overcome by a rank odor !

 

Vinaigrette. Which originally held sponges soaked in vinegar.

As to pill boxes, much quack medicine came in tiny pills - as did breath sweeteners which is what they were often used for.

I suspect davey knows the exchange rate. From memory, his ex lives down under.

Don, it's one of those things. I've a friend who has a holiday home on Cyprus. He finances his trips by filling his suitcase with thimbles, watches, brooches and wee bits of china all bought for peanuts. He then sells them for several times purchase price to tourists.

 

Thank you, Bear !

 

Most welcome, johnny, as ever.

 

I bought a tiny sterling stamp case and it holds old stamps perfectly. I want a vesta, card and ciggy holdr one day too
I looked up cheroot holder since I never heard of it before?
Holder and case