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A jewel box lined with red velvet
[edit] Jewelry box
A jewelry (AmE) or jewellery (BrE) box, is a receptacle for trinkets, not only jewels. It may take a very modest form, covered in leather and lined with satin, or it may reach the monumental proportions.
[edit] Bible box
A Bible Box is a box made to hold Bibles. These boxes started being manufactured in the 17th century.
The etui is an ornamental box for carrying in your pocket or purse, with small tools like folding scissors, needles, hairpins, makeup pencils, etc. 18th century etui Some etui were used to carry doctors' lancets.
[edit] Wooden wine box
Wooden wine boxes, also known as wooden wine crates are used to ship and store expensive wines in transit. Most wineries that use wooden boxes engrave their logo and designs on the front panel. These panels are usually highly detailed and used by wine collectors as decoration pieces for their bars or wine cellars. A typical wooden wine box holds either 6 or 12 750 ML bottles.
[edit] Types of box
- Box (wood), a wooden box for packaging or storage. See also crate.
- Ballot box, a box in which votes (ballot papers) are deposited during voting
- Black box, something for which the internal operation is not described but its function is
- Black box (transportation), a durable data-recording device found in some vehicles, used to assist in the investigation of an accident
- Coach box, the driver's seat on a carriage or coach
- Glory box or Hope Chest, a box or chest containing items typically stored by unmarried young women in anticipation of married life.
- Lunch box, or "lunch pail" or "lunch kit", a rigid container used for carrying food
- Mitre box, a woodworking tool used to guide a hand saw to make precise mitre cuts in a board
- Set-top box, a device used to decode and display TV signals
- Nest box, a substitute for a hole in a tree for birds to make a nest in.
- Toolbox, (or tool box), a box for tools
- Pandora's box, in Greek mythology, a box containing the evils of mankind and also hope
- Dispatch box, (or despatch box), a box for holding official papers and transporting them
- Box, informal reference to large box-shaped parts of a computer, such as the base unit or tower case of a personal computer.
- Torsion box, consists of two skins applied to a core material, light in weight, functions as a beam
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- Postal service
- Post office box, (often abbreviated P.O. box or PO box), a uniquely-addressable lockable box located in a post office station.
- Post box (British English and others, also written postbox), or mailbox (North American English and others) is a physical box used to collect mail that is to be sent to a destination. Varieties of post boxes for outgoing mail include:
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- Post box, can refer to a letter box for incoming mail
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- Other
- Phreaking boxes, devices used by phone phreaks to perform various functions normally reserved for operators and other telephone company employees
- Vermilion box, a hypothetical portable improvised line emulator
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