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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 9867789, member: 111"]As Debora already said, it's not a calling card case, even the smallest would still be around 3" long, there were small aide memoires or dance cards made, but they were typically intended to hang, along with a pencil, from a chatelaine or finger ring. The small souvenir books like the one 2manybooks linked from Etsy typically had reference to the contents, even if just 'Souvenir', the accordion folded contents just glued in.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those removable pins seem to point to contents that could be replaced, my first thought was perhaps a needle book, it's the right size, but those typically have the layers of fabric stitched in, like Gorham piece linked from Rubylane - would expect a needle case to belong to woman, but 'Axel' might have been a tailor. Honestly don't know what these pieces are, stamp box came to mind as well (but why the pins?) - perhaps they just had folded over paper for notes, held in by the pin...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a later (1902) GAB version in silver rather than nysilver, the outside design is the same, but has different clasps and there appears to be two rings in the center that would have held a now missing pin, the engraved name 'Thyra' would be feminine:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.tradera.com/en/item/202203/634408792/silver-bokparmar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.tradera.com/en/item/202203/634408792/silver-bokparmar" rel="nofollow">https://www.tradera.com/en/item/202203/634408792/silver-bokparmar</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]495071[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]495072[/ATTACH]</p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 9867789, member: 111"]As Debora already said, it's not a calling card case, even the smallest would still be around 3" long, there were small aide memoires or dance cards made, but they were typically intended to hang, along with a pencil, from a chatelaine or finger ring. The small souvenir books like the one 2manybooks linked from Etsy typically had reference to the contents, even if just 'Souvenir', the accordion folded contents just glued in. Those removable pins seem to point to contents that could be replaced, my first thought was perhaps a needle book, it's the right size, but those typically have the layers of fabric stitched in, like Gorham piece linked from Rubylane - would expect a needle case to belong to woman, but 'Axel' might have been a tailor. Honestly don't know what these pieces are, stamp box came to mind as well (but why the pins?) - perhaps they just had folded over paper for notes, held in by the pin... Here is a later (1902) GAB version in silver rather than nysilver, the outside design is the same, but has different clasps and there appears to be two rings in the center that would have held a now missing pin, the engraved name 'Thyra' would be feminine: [URL]https://www.tradera.com/en/item/202203/634408792/silver-bokparmar[/URL] [ATTACH=full]495071[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]495072[/ATTACH] ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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