Only a few sewing boxes have survived together with their original contents. One of them is this precious casket. Its wooden core is covered on the outside with an iridescent mother-of-pearl veneer and seven antique mosaic motifs framed in red. The bright color palette and the contrasting effect are repeated on the inside. The lid is lined with a light-colored fabric, which is held in the middle by a rosette and framed all around by a cord and cardboard covered in red fabric. The precisely fitting recesses in the velvet-lined insert, in which the seven artfully crafted 18-carat gold utensils rest, are also edged in red. From front to back, these are a drawing needle, a thimble and a pair of scissors, a perfume bottle, which also echoes the antique mosaic motif, as well as a needle box, a pricker, and, to the side of the two, a thread star, which was used to wind thread. Some of these utensils are stamped, indicating that the sewing box was made in Amsterdam between 1850 and 1870.