Vintage Antique Brass Scarab Beetle/bug Match Safe Holder Trinket/jewelry Box
Item History & Price
Antique brass beetle/scarab. Could be used as a match safe, keepsake box or trinket box.
Exterior surface has expected signs of age. Could use a cleaning, but has a nice patina, so I did not want to do anything with it--leaving it to the new owner. Hinge works fine. The inside is more worn and dirtier, probably from things being stored in it. One front leg lifts off the ground while the other is flat--as you look at the picture of it from the head, it is the leg on... the left in the picture. I have no idea if it was made this way or somehow got bent (it's pretty solid, so not sure how this would have happened--you could not just bend it back).
Approximate measurements:11 ounces
4.5" long4" wide when measuring to the tips of the feet1.75" wide when measuring just the body1.75" tallthe inside open area is about 3" by 1.5"
Belonged to my mother--she kept paperclips and rubber bands in it. She inherited it from my grandmother--remember it in her house in the 1960's. Can't keep everything, and I am not wild about bugs of any type, thus selling it.
Please see photos.
Exterior surface has expected signs of age. Could use a cleaning, but has a nice patina, so I did not want to do anything with it--leaving it to the new owner. Hinge works fine. The inside is more worn and dirtier, probably from things being stored in it. One front leg lifts off the ground while the other is flat--as you look at the picture of it from the head, it is the leg on... the left in the picture. I have no idea if it was made this way or somehow got bent (it's pretty solid, so not sure how this would have happened--you could not just bend it back).
Approximate measurements:11 ounces
4.5" long4" wide when measuring to the tips of the feet1.75" wide when measuring just the body1.75" tallthe inside open area is about 3" by 1.5"
Belonged to my mother--she kept paperclips and rubber bands in it. She inherited it from my grandmother--remember it in her house in the 1960's. Can't keep everything, and I am not wild about bugs of any type, thus selling it.
Please see photos.
