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Subject:Chinese Silver Card Holder?
Posted By: Tom Wed, Mar 29, 2017 IP: 174.88.22.116 Any help identifying what this is as well as the makers mark would be appreciated. Thanks 
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Subject:Re: Chinese Silver Card Holder?
Posted By: mikeoz Thu, Mar 30, 2017 Matchbox holder
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Subject:Re: Chinese Silver Card Holder?
Posted By: Stan Thu, Mar 30, 2017 It holds a box of matches. You scratch the match on the side of the box through the holes.
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Subject:Re: Re: Chinese Silver Card Holder?
Posted By: Bill H Fri, Mar 31, 2017 The Roman letters look to be LW when flipped 180, indicating your match box, perhaps from a smoking set, was made by Shanghai silversmith Luen Wo, who was active during the late 19th-early 20th century. Can't quite wrap my eyes around the Chinese mark yet but will keep trying to stare it down. The large characters, which are shown correctly in the first photo, read down in mandarin as Fu-Lu-Shou, representing the three Daoist "Star Gods", Fuxing, Luxing and Shouxing. I believe Wikipedia.org may have a page on them. Meanwhile, here's a Luen Wo creamer and sugar bowl from a dollhouse set, which I picked up on eBay a long time ago.
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Subject:Re: Re: Chinese Silver Card Holder?
Posted By: Stan Fri, Mar 31, 2017 They make match box holders out all kinds of things.
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- Tom - Mar 29, 2017 (06:24 PM) 
