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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9710045, member: 2844&quot;]Stunning find, EL, and your collection is just the right place for it. You may have to build an extension though.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Are you going to try and fill it with period music sheets? As you know, there are quite a lot of single sheets out there, often sold as home decor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Could certainly be.</p><p>Interestingly, it has a combination of square head nails and rose head nails.</p><p>I don&#039;t know exactly when the rose heads were introduced, but they are generally associated with 17th and 18th century furniture. The rose head nails on your binding could be replacements of missing square head nails.</p><p>Given the customary 17th century use of rose heads, your binding and the square head nails are likely to pre-date the 17th century, imo. </p><p>If the rose heads were introduced before the 17th century, it could be even older.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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