An early painted Tunbridge Ware cottage reel box. The front has a ladder, stable door and leaded light window and foliage, each gable end  has a window below the thatched roof there is  a wax chimney small repair to corner of the roof. The sliding lid reveals lined paper compartments for the reels,; the silks would be threaded through the three small holes on the side .It measures  13.4cm w  x 6 cm d x 7cm h.