This is a cut glass "Glove Box" or "Jewel Box". Typically collectors call the larger rectangle caskets Glove boxes but companies also marketed them as Jewel boxes too in catalogs. This long shape is hard to find and very desirable to collectors.
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Measures: roughly 4" wide on by 10-1/2" long. Opening inside is 9-1/4" long by 2-3/4" wide. Its 3-1/2" tall.
This is from the American Brilliant period (1870 to 1920's).
This is the "Sorosis" pattern cut by Meriden cut glass co.
The design on the lids features 2 Sorosis flowers with lots of leaves, and the lower half has a border of "Harvard" cane cutting.. Traditional Star cut bottom. Silver plated frame
Condition: It is over 100 years old and has some condition issues to mention but it display or work as a box just fine. There may be some plating loss under the tarnish, I am not polishing this so you get the patina and can decide if you want to polish it or not...
From age there will be minor scuffs and scratches on the bottom from sitting on surfaces, and a couple tiny dings that no one will see on the sides hidden in the pattern.
The plaster that holds the metal frame on the box is secure, but you can see at one point the plaster was removed or broke out of the section along the back side of the frame on the lid half and they replaced it with some glue that has yellowed from age . Also the original owner, Ms. "Ruth Shepard" wrote her name and Social S number on the frame twice by scratching it in. She wrote on the inside and on the outside on 1 end.
Possibilities for restoring it would be to dissolve the glue and plaster to remove the frame- then have it replated by a jeweler, and then reapplying the plaster with plaster of Paris. But it is not necessary.
Here is your change to get one cheap to display or use due to the condition.
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