Interesting boxes

I purchased this box today in a flea market in Switzerland. A very nice work, dated 1924. I will use it to storage a tournament chess set. 

It is certainly the most beautiful box in my collection. The details are very nice.

@brasileirosim - very nice box. Good find. As you state, the details are nice. 

Beautiful box. Great find.

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A very beautiful find there my friend! Could we impose upon you for a picture of the inside please? 

Thanks. I will make a picture from the inside soon.

I will post here some pictures of other boxes from my collection.

An old travel set, not really playable.

This isn’t originally a chess box, but it can be nicely used for a set and a board.

Thank you for the pictures. Each box has untold stories that need to be heard. I often wonder who the makers were, what the boxes may have been intended for, and how they ended up storing chess sets. Very much appreciate you sharing them with us. 

Lovely!

These are also my thoughts. I am not a typical chess collector, as I am more attracted to items which are not necessarily highly collectible in the classical sense, but are very interesting because they are talking to me. Once I bought in Brazil a chess set because they were produced by a company in Curitiba, Parana, which was very successful, selling these sets in the whole country.

I talked to a guy from this family and he told me interesting stories about Brazilian chess sets in the 1980s and 1990s. He told me about a shop which perhaps had one or two of those sets. (He had also a shop with some chess items, but he didn’t have one of the sets his family was once producing). 

I went in this other shop and bought the very last one!