A rare early 19th C. box with a sliding lid, containing a large quantity of "bikkels" on one side and lighting utensils on the other.
€ 245
Ref.:
22106
A wooden painted box with a sliding lid. Wide 27 cm. Deep 13 cm. High 12 cm. The box is divided in two compartments and has a sliding cover. One compartment contains a large quantity of "bikkels" , a game, made of bone, brass or pewter, and a small ball and four bone dices. The other contains a pewter candle stick, a brass tinder box, a firing iron and a piece of flint. Apparently the idea of the box was that games could be played in daytime as well as by night. Zeeland, first half 19th C.