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Lot: Vintage Japanese "Puzzle Box" with hidden compartment & 2 pieces of costume jewelry

This box is an example of skilled workmanship.Using a loop it looks to me that different kinds/colors of wood were finely cut like a puzzle and reassembled into this design. I think this is called marquetry and I think the box is from or relates to Japan because it features Mt. Fuji and a Japanese landscape.  The box is toned with age but I do not know how old it is.   It measures about 3" H x 3" deep x 4.25" wide. This is a puzzle box with moving parts. 

Box is designed to look like a shelf of books. The center book slides down when the bottom rails slide left and right. This then exposes the hidden key hole in the main body of the box. (the actual metal lock has been removed by someone in the past and could be restored by a craft skilled person). 

The bottom right rail slides out to reveal a hidden compartment to hide a note, money or a treasure.  That rail has been replaced with this piece of light colored wood that needs to be stained to match the box.  

Included in the box are two pieces of vintage costume jewelry.  -  A small copper and enameled brooch/ pin and pair of  vintage jeweled leaf screw back earrings. 

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PAIR OF SCREWBACK EARRINGS & AN ENAMELED PIN

This lot sale is for two mid century items.  The 1" square ?copper? & enameled "modernist/ cubist" designed artsy pin is not signed but it was hand made with baked on layers of glass enamels in a "modern" design.  The back looks like plain copper colored metal with a fastener pin affixed with jewelers epoxy.  A handmade artistic pin as opposed to a factory made mass produced item. 

The earrings are not signed and the leaves are about 1" in diameter made of a thin light weight metal. It is unmarked goldtone metal that looks like gilt.   They are peppered with small faux diamonds. I do not see a makers mark and they are screw back so based on design and materials, I am thinking mid-century.