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Message:: [QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 33581, member: 29"]OK, have a look at this. Looks like a nice little mahogany plant or tea table, until you turn it upside down. Then, you see the butterfly nut, which unscrews to reveal the oddest interior. There are holes going right through, with what look like regular indentsations to take, what? And each impression has a letter and a number, too. The lid has some sort of pattern number, and one of the indentation sets says BATT. It's really well made and has me utterly flummoxed. Came from the house of a woman who died at the age of 103 - she'd been a milliner, and loved photography, too, but I can't think of any connection to either of those things. Oh, and she was Jewish, born and bred in London of an old "immigrant" family, not WW2 settlers. I wondered lacemaking, but those are normally much bigger tables. [ATTACH=full]8445[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8438[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8439[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8440[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8441[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8442[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8443[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8444[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8445[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8446[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8438[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8439[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8440[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8441[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8442[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8443[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8444[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8445[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]8446[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]