Does anyone know what this is? It says its from Norway, dated c. 1700?

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  1. I am fairly certain it’s neither a cheese- or butter mold. Molds usually have removable sides and carved decorations on the inside. The lids also look unpractical for molding purposes.

    The measurements can be pretty important to determine what kind of box this is though. If its a smaller box, then my best guess is that this is a barber box for storing barber equipments, or other small types of accessories. Usually these barber boxes have more elongated and rektangular shapes and hinged lids or sliding lids, but I’ve seen other atypical ones with similiar characteristics as this one. The conpartments in the box could be one for soap and the other for cloth and barberknife.

    https://digitaltmuseum.no/search/?q=BarberSkrin

    Edit: added link and more information

  2. Spice jars.

    The butter and cheeze molds can be totally disassembled. How would you get the butter out of that one.

    Probably also why it survived the centuries, it just hung on a wall somewhere without much use.

  3. Boxes with sliding lids and multiple compartments have been used for keeping ink bottles. You can check if you find some stains on the inside, then it certainly was used for ink.

    Either this or for barber stuff, but definitely not anything food related.

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