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Description: http://hygra.com/uk/n11/SB607
Ref : SB607 Anglo Indian sewing basket made from large flat Panels of flattened buffalo horn. The mitered joins at the corners have engraved silver straps. Inside there is a compartmentalized lift-out tray, lined with faded pink silk, containing three carved and turned mother of pearl (nacre) and bone spools, a turned and carved bone bodkin, and a silver caped cut crystal sent bottle with a glass stopper. 

Origin: India;  Circa: 1800
; Materials: Buffalo horn, bone, mother of pearl, silk.
Size: 25.5 cm wide by 15.3 cm by 9.8 cm:  10  inches wide by  6  inches by  3.9 inches.

Condition: good overall;  see images. Some wear  to the silk.

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