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Spice box, tin-plate, cylindrical drum-shaped form with hinged domed lid with a fastening hasp and moveable stirrup-shaped handle to the top, the interior of the box divided into two layers, the bottom layer divided into five compartments by radial metal partitions, on top of this layer fits a removeable tray also divided into five compartments by radial metal partitions which converge on a sixth circular partition to the centre of the tray, in each of the five compartments of the tray fits a small wedge-shaped box with hinged lid with fastening hasp and ring handle; the exterior of the spice box covered with a reddish-black japan and decorated with gilt lines, the removeable tray and five small boxes also covered with a black japan with a reddish tinge, the lids of the boxes each inscribed with the name of a spice as recorded above. The five small boxes still contain their original spices.