item details
NameJewellery box
ProductionUnknown; maker/artist; 1945-1949; Germany
Classificationboxes, caskets, jewelry boxes
Materialswood
Materials SummaryHandmade wooden jewellery box with pyrography decoration
Techniqueswoodworking, pyrography
DimensionsOverall: 125mm (width), 550mm (height), 180mm (length)
Registration NumberGH011740
Credit lineGift of Tiiu Reissar, 2008
Overview
This jewellery box was a treasured object of Alma Reissar (1910-1986), a migrant from Estonia who came to New Zealand in 1949 via Germany as a displaced person after the Second World War (1939-45).
She purchased the box from an Estonian craftsman, also displaced, at the Displaced Persons Camp, Ohinstede, Oldenburg, Germany. The box became a treasured reminder of her five years in the camp, and she kept her special trinkets in it.