Keepsake box
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A keepsake box or memory box, typically made from wood, is used for storing mementos of a special time, event or person. They are often created or purchased to mark life's major events like a christening, wedding, birthday, or First Holy Communion. They may also be given for sad occasions of bereavement, such as the stillbirth of a child, when a keepsake/memory box helps with the grieving process. This sort of a keepsake box may be personalised with a person's name, design or picture.
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In September 2011 the BBC highlighted a modern example of a particularly intricate memory box, in the form of a Pantheon Theatre, containing over 10,000 pieces of marquetry, taking 18 months to create.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ Memory Box Model Theatre, BBC East Midlands News (YouTube clip). Retrieved 2012-03-02.
- ^ Wheathills - Let the memory live again, Derbyshire Life Magazine, September 15, 2011. Retrieved 2012-03-02.