Hi,
I am still having fun searching the internet for this. I am intrigued.
My brother said the glype meant longevity, which as someone else suggested was long life. Which leads me to think tobacco.
I have found that wood lined boxes are for tobacco or pyrotecnics <www.dogpile.com>. I found some on e-bay "wood lined metal" and found one from Sweden that was a cigar box, and one from china, a beautiful house shaped one.
I just did a search on "wood lined" and came up with brass cigarette box:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4175&item=3780302355&rd=1
There are several other brass wood lined boxes.
Some of the boxes are quite small (2"X 2" or 3"), which leads me to think loose tobacco.
I have written a friend in Japan to see what he thinks it might be. If I hear back I will let you all know.
Someone I wrote to suggested they might be used for tea, but did not know for sure. And suggested that contacting someone who deals with oriental objects would know more.
All of the Whitman's boxes I have found are printed, not etched. My thoughts are that someone wanted to give the box and the chocolates, which fit perfectly and then stuck on the sticker so the person would know what was in the box. I have done stuff like that.
Best!!
Kathy.
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