19th Century Anglo-Indian Deed Box

• Ebony - Ebony is a close grained timber, black in colour. It has a fine texture which can be polished to a high gloss, making it suitable for venereering, inlay and stringing and its use as solid timber is resticted to small decorative items and ornamental decoration, such as chess pieces and musical instrument parts. The term "ebonised" means "faux ebony", timber that has been darkened during the polishing process to resemble ebony.

This item has been included into following indexes:

• Anglo-Indian - small wooden items: writing and other boxes 76
• Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam and sadeli boxes - sewing and other boxes 338
• boxes, function - deeds and document boxes 105
• boxes, material or decoration - porcupine quill boxes 38