Antique box found in the garden years ago, any information?
Years ago (10-9 years old) I dug a hole in the garden purely on impulse. I was very young back then. I wanted to find a treasure and you won't believe it. After about half an hour of digging I came across something hard. At first I assumed it was a root, but then I realized it was a bag. On it was some text with cocoa and a picture of cocoa beans (I probably no longer have it).
Inside was this small box filled with coins from various European countries (Spain, etc.), which I unfortunately no longer have. So now I'm wondering what kind of box it is? What year is it from? (The coins would have shed more light on this, but as I said, I no longer have them.) Who made it, who could have owned it, and why would they have buried it there?
A small sign on the back
From above
inside
Thanks to everyone who can contribute a little to help me.
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Looks powerfully clean inside for it that it should have been lying under the earth forever
It was in a jute bag and closed, you can talk of luck that this is still so well preserved
I think it’s a very old cigar box
I would also mean on Google I found some similar specimens but not specifically this one.
Could have buried a child with his “estimates” in the garden and you found it randomly.
Could be a cigarette or cigar box. In the 70/80s I saw such similar boxes in tobacco shops. It has probably been made Chinaware or somewhere inexpensive. But ask yourself in a well-stocked tobacco business.
can be good, as this box was quite unharmed, I assume that it was not too long under the earth, but that is not fixed.
The logo on the back could also be a sign.
It does not look like a lion or dog
the sign looks more like a Capricorn standing on a big E
Since the interior is covered with wood, I tap a box for cigars or possibly. Tea.
the historian crying in me, because you didn’t tell anyone about your find
Why, what is it?
The text about cocoa would have the answer.
The box looks like a cigar box.
Age indefinite.