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The box is one of the very few old leather coffins I've seen. It was made by stretching thin leather over a form while wet, stamping the designs in and boiling it until it became rigid.

I didn't...

Appears to be laminated paper or extremely thin wrapped wood veneer body with a very thin embossed leather wrapped over all -- or not. A bit of microscope work could decide.

I had studied those two links before, but couldn't understand why I got it for <$40 unless I was missing something. The strike on the stamping doesn't even hint at the J or I dash SHAW, and only the...

This just came in the post and I know nothing about why it went cheaply, so would someone fill me in please? The case is embossed with a DW in a few places, and appears quite old, so old I really...