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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 202032, member: 360&quot;]On the lid there are six characters, and a red square. </p><p><br /></p><p>The red square is meant to represent an artist&#039;s seal. Seals (which are always RED by tradition) are most commonly used in China, Korea, Japan and overseas localities with large Chinese populations (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, etc). </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d say it&#039;s Japanese, and that this was some variety of bento box. Stacked food-containers were (and still are) very, very common in Asian countries. I have a big antique brass one from the 1800s in my collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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