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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 10229965, member: 4654&quot;]I do understand these Anglo-Indian antiques aren&#039;t for everyone, personally it took me a few years to realise the skill and time involved to make one of the good ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;‘The Proceedings of the Madras Central Committee’ recorded that a box could take from three to six months to complete.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>At that time a skilled tailor working for a rich person was earning 14 rupees a month while a skilled Mysore carver could earn 2 rupees a day, how much would it cost today to make? That&#039;s why I started collecting them in the first place, yes I made plenty of mistakes, the carving on most boxes isn&#039;t that well done but once you get your eye in the difference is very clear, the clunky carving on a mass produced boxes is crude but 1 in every 50 is older and done with a fineness that beggars belief and is far better than anything Europe was producing (except Italy or France or Holland) but these were so expensive at that time your not going to find them being sold on ebay for £15.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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