Until the 50s and 60s, a jewelry box was considered to be a status symbol for people. The reason to that was many jewelry boxes if ordered for custom made according to your taste would cost them a fortune. Those expensive jewelry boxes were twice as costly as the jewelry it was used to hold. To own a jewelry box at that time meant that you must have had a hell lot of expensive jewelry in there which also gave them the name of treasure boxes. There were also some expensive jewelry boxes that used to play music if the cover was flipped open, they were called Musical Jewelry boxes. These kinds of boxes are still found in shops but as antiques which have risen there prices already. But jewelry boxes have taken more meaning than just grade mark when we realized their number of uses.