INSIDE THE BOX; LIMOGES COLLECTIBLES HAVE SPURRED SO MUCH COMPETITION THAT MERCHANTS ARE RETHINKING STRATEGIES.

HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network | June 18, 2001| | Copyright

NEW YORK-They say good things come in small packages. Certainly the suppliers, retailers and collectors of Limoges boxes would agree. Because despite a recent softening in the market for Limoges boxes -- those tiny, intricately painted and precisely hinged keepsakes -- they continue to be a good source of revenue.

Limoges boxes are so alluring (who could resist an itty-bitty porcelain mailbox that holds an even tinier porcelain letter?) that in recent years hundreds of merchants, from mail-order houses to warehouse clubs to florists, have gotten into the act, and ...

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