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Japanese table cabinet chocolate box for A J Caley, Norwich, c.1890



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Product Description

3-drawer table cabinet
Wood and white metal with lacquer decoration
Japan, late 19th century
Bearing paper label on base of A J Caley of Norwich, c.1890
12.0 x 8.6 x 12.3 cm

The cabinet was presumably used as packaging for the milk chocolate bars produced by A J Caley of Norwich. The paper label is an early example of the firm’s ‘fleur de lys’ labelling from their factory opened in Chapelfield in 1890. Read more on the blog