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Antique English Painted Tin Cash Box with Cantilevered Interior Trays - An antique English tin-plated steel cash box featuring a black-painted finish decorated with gold and red pinstriping and a bordered lid. The exterior lid is fitted with a central brass swing handle mounted on circular rosettes. The interior is equipped with a black-painted, tiered cantilevered tray mechanism that unfolds when the lid is opened, revealing multiple compartments with individual hinged lids and circular wire pull rings. An embossed mark on the interior metal lip of the box reads MADE IN ENGLAND. A keyed lock mechanism is centered on the front face, though the corresponding key is not present. The base and interior show a dark japanned or painted finish consistent with late 19th or early 20th-century utility metalwork.