A very rare Georgian drizzling box with a secret drawer. The interior with two circular boxes for gold and silver thread & a rectangular box. There are oval inlaid panels on the boxes, surrounded by chequered borders. On the main box one end slides up to reveal a long secret drawer.
Drizzling was popular in the late 1700s and was a hobby built around carefully removing valuable gold & silver threads from old textiles, brocade dresses & tapestries, so as to not waste the thread, and then selling the threads. Drizzling wasn’t just for women; Prince Leopold was known to partake in this hobby.