Molly & Luna's boxes

Made from Service that I've had in stock so long it had some woodworm, lined with sitka spruce, and with a slightly more elaborate wooden 'key' than in the previous jewellery box. The grain is wrapped and the corner joints are reinforced with 45 degree sawn slots with a dark spline of veneer glued in. The key is a laburnum and boxwood peg with a knob at the top, and is held in place by a brass dowel that can turn through a restricted angle of about 110 degrees. As the key turns, a smaller pin lower down on the peg engages in a slot on the inside of the front of the box. Time-consuming to make because everything has to be accurate to within about half a millimetre, or the box lid will not be held firmly closed; and the boxwood part of the turning knob has to face exactly to the front when the box is locked. In the bottom is a not-so-secret compartment under a thin shelf covered with blue baize, supported by rails on three sides; it is reached by pressing on the fourth side that isn't supported by a rail - the two longer rails ending in a slope an inch or so short of the fourth side. When the unsupported end is pressed down on the sloping rails, the opposite end is cantilevered up.