Instantaneous Light Box (length 3 ins) of tin; rectangular, with rounded corners, and hinged lid, having on top candle-socket, still containing original candle; exterior handsomely japanned dark brown, with delicate ornamental linear pattern in gilt round lid; interior painted red; a folding handle of tin in front; has four compartments, all upright, one, in front, contains stoppered acid-bottle (stopper missing), still filled with asbestos and set in a cement of same; another, behind, contains a small candle-extinguisher, of tin, japanned, on a holder of its own; two others, one at each end, for matches; one short, flat, red-tipped match remains. England.