Boxes, Cases, and Necessaires. History Notes Book 11

Boxes, Cases, Etui, Necessaire and everything else that was used to carry essential items for travel, sewing, medicine, writing, and toiletries. Craftsmen created containers of precious metals, leather, and silks and decorated them with jewels and engraving to make exquisite and expensive items as well as practical carrying cases. Competition was fierce to see who had the most elegant snuff box, the most beautiful luggage, or carried the most expensively decorated boxes or cases containing essential daily items.