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spar box

Spar boxes are a type of folk art, crafted by miners to display minerals and crystals they have found.

Spar Box in Ulster Museum
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Spar boxes are a type of folk art, crafted by miners to display minerals and crystals they have found. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Spar box”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

spar box is folk art crafted by miners with the minerals and crystals found within the mountains, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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