Designer: Piero Fornasetti (1913 – 1988)

Item: Monete Romane (Roman Coins) Box

Manufactured by: Piero Fornasetti

Country of origin: Italy

Year made: 1950s

Materials: Steel with mahogany wood slide, silkscreen printed images, paint. 

Dimensions: Box is 1 ½” x 5 ½” x 3 ½”

Condition: Very good with a few scattered minor losses of paint as shown.

Description: Here is another rare example of Fornasetti’s well known Roman Coins box with its original green felt but the logo is rubbed beyond recognition. 

References: Fornasetti, Barnaba, Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Rizzoli (2010), page 500.