[MR] Info on Trinket boxes

[SWRDBABE at aol.com]

Greetings all,

My wonderful and dear friend just bought for me over the weekend a beautiful acorn shaped trinket box.  Its a 3D box about 4 1/2" by 3 1/2".  The reason I first saw it and fell in love was because even though its resin(or plastic) it looks like glass and gold and it would hold my thimble or a small spool of thread nicely.  My question is, just how period were boxes of this style in the Renassaince?  I was originally going to hang it from my belt like a part of my chatelaine  but have since decided to carry in my basket (where its safest).  

Thank you in advance for any information you might have.

Lady Daniela Schwartzhaupt

"We are all the background of each others dream. 
Lets not make it a nightmare."