{"id":165,"date":"2016-01-17T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/?p=165"},"modified":"2016-01-17T23:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T23:38:00","slug":"swedish-stamp-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/2016\/01\/17\/swedish-stamp-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Stamp Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SwedishBox.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-164\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-164 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SwedishBox-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"SwedishBox\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SwedishBox-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SwedishBox-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SwedishBox-1024x773.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SwedishBox.jpg 1842w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most European countries produced stamp boxes at one time or another. Sweden is no exception but they do not turn up in any great numbers, in the UK at least. Our picture shows the hinged lid of a simple wooden box with two sloped compartments. The basic box is similar to a common Mauchline Ware type. The Swedish one is decorated all over in pokerwork and has a small circular image inset under glass in the lid. Fortunately, identification of the image is made easy by the inscription to the back of the box: \u00a0&#8220;Minne fr\u00e5n H\u00e4lsingborg 1919&#8221; which may be translated as \u201cMemento of Helsingborg 1919\u201d; Helsingborg being the modern spelling of one of Sweden\u2019s oldest cities. The grand building is the town hall built in 1897 and the equestrian statue is of Count Magnus Stenbock (1664 \u20131717) a military officer and statesman. This little tale illustrates one of the joys of collecting: there is so much to be learned from what we collect if we bother to do a little research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most European countries produced stamp boxes at one time or another. Sweden is no exception but they do not turn up in any great numbers, in the UK at least. Our picture shows the hinged lid of a simple wooden box with two sloped compartments. The basic box is similar to a common Mauchline Ware &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/2016\/01\/17\/swedish-stamp-box\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swedish Stamp Box<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stampbox.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}