Q: I would like to learn more about a pair of porcelain trinket boxes that belonged to my grandfather, who died in 1926. Each box is 8 inches tall and in the shape of a person sitting in a fancy armchair. One chair is captioned ‘Grandmama’ on the front, and the other ‘Grandpapa.’ The grandmother is sitting in the chair knitting, and the grandfather is using his right hand to hold the book he’s reading and his left hand to hold his pipe. If you lift up the figures, you find a box formed by the bottom of the chair. Marks are embossed inside the lids. There’s a series of numbers under a shield surrounding the image of an angled arm holding a knife. Both of the boxes are chipped, but I wonder if you can tell us where and when they were made?
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