Ezhuthu Petti alias Malabar Dowery Box.

This is a video of a wooden box which is more than 400 years old, this contains 23 compartments, most of them are secret compartments which cannot be found easily since they are tricky, The Original name of this box was 'Ezhuthu Petti' means 'Writing Box' as the name says, people used this box as a table to write and to store their business documents, the secret compartments where used to store thier valubles, the largest compartment which is located at the bottom of the box where used to store the documents of their land properites, Lateley this box is been called as the 'Malabar Dowery Box' by the foreigners. This box is 18 inches in length, 12 inches in breadth and 8 inches in height. all the metals used in this box is pure and core brass, every design in brass done on wood is handmade, the wood used for this box is Rosewood. The present condition, box is not polished, neither is the brass portion of the box, you can find green colored corrosion on parts of the brass metal on the box, be it the locks or the design. The owner of the box did not want to loose the original feel of the box, hence it is not been polished ever since this box has been hand overed to him by his father.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• Ezhuthu
• Petti
• Malabar
• Dowery
• box
• rose
• wood
• brass
• designs
• wooden
• antique

[MetallicaMadness1695]

That box is tight as hell, I want one :D!

[fajardelsyst]

Oh are you really lookin for somethin like this?

[cjw2325]

where can i get one? i will buy that 1

[MetallicaMadness1695]

Im just saying it would be sweet to have, and for a reasonable price, i would pick one up :).

[MetallicaMadness1695]

First btw :)