Ebony was one of the main traditional materials for surgical tools, so that's a good guess.
I meant is there a cutout in the main box for the smaller box of dental tools?
The GR crown on the Green marks it most likely as 1821-1830, that also narrows that one tool down to Alfred Green, who made surgeons tools in Sheffield from about 1825 into the 1850's.
Doctors and surgeons at the least typically had whole sets that were dedicated to the profession, rather than being one part of the tools in a dressing kit. Perhaps dentists were different. The profession diverged from mainstream medicine well before the 1800's (to everyone's detriment -- I mean, teeth are just bones we can look at without bleeding), and their toolkit is smaller than most surgeons.
My strong suspicion is that the contents of the box are a Ship of Theseus situation... And speaking of contents and ships, are those sea shells in the middle central compartment on the top tray? If you can get a closer picture of them, I can tell you what ocean they came from and what animals they belonged to.
(Well, my wife can, she is to shells as I am to razors).
Like I said, I don't think the razors are knockoffs, but it can't be entirely discounted. In my opinion, the razors are no earlier than the 1840's (based on the scales of the one in it's original horn scales). I'm very skeptical of dating Rodgers razors by the wording of their stamps other than crown stamps in the absence of other slogans and identifying marks.
It looks to me like that glass jar in the upper left of the top tray has a silver lid on it. Though, in the set I have those jars have silver plated lids which are no help, but maybe yours is solid. The marking would likely be on the inside.
It's been my experience that stories that are used to sell an item are rarely correct, so I share your perspective of never buying a story (though as I writer I certainly want publishers to buy mine). However, the stories I'm talking about are the ones that can be deduced from the item, its manufacturer, and who it's possible to verify as an owner. Most of the time it doesn't go farther than the manufacturer, but every now and then...
The other possible location of identifying information about the box would be the locking mechanism. This is what the one on my box looks like. Are there any marks at all on yours?
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