Fine Wood Jewelry Boxes Blog

Most women love to collect jewelry – fine jewelry, costume jewelry, you name it – but it’s equally important to consider the proper storage of your jewelry as it is to enhance your collection. My personal favorites are bangle bracelets; I swear I have them in just about every color, but my absolute favorite set is the turquoise bangles.

I keep my bangles in a unique jewelry box that I found at a garage sale, what a find! It’s a handcrafted maple wood box that opens with a hinged lid. Inside you’d find a plum-tinted velvet lining and on top of the box is the outline of a butterfly that has been carved into the wood. I have other jewelry boxes for the rest of my collection, but I reserve the best box for my favorite pieces.

My Grandpa Joe loves to collect keys. A strange fetish to some, his collection dates all the way back to the early 1900’s. He’s pretty old, 79 years old to be exact, but his array of keys in indeed older. He started his collection at age 6 with three keys that he inherited from his dad who had also been a key collector. Today, he has more than 2,000 keys in his collection.

He keeps his keys in several handmade wooden jewelry boxes that are spread across his bedroom dresser. And every so often he opens his jewelry boxes and fingers through the hundreds of keys kept in each one. I’ve never really understood his reasoning behind his collection, other than that it reminds him of family. Sometimes I joke that he hopes to find a key that will unlock a magnificent treasure.