Laura pushed her hair aside and revealed a lacy silver pendant shaped like a spice box.

Handsome spice boxes of varying sizes with maple sides and fitted pine tops and bottoms cost from $33 to $17.25.

These included fanciful miniature buildings influenced by European spice boxes, figures and objects within shadow boxes, and in one case a synagogue ark.

The most bejeweled object in the show is a spice box by Ina Golub of Mountainside.

Gracia Roman, at No. 4 (281-120), has modern menorahs, spice boxes and other decorative pieces.

Simpler objects included charity boxes, spice boxes and Hanukkah lamps.

Various trinkets were hidden in the cake for the children to find; one of these was a star the Cook discovered in the old spice box.

The air suddenly smelled as though someone had opened a spice box.

Looking fixedly at him, she diverted his hand from one spice box to a less appropriate one as he gave a final shake to the concoction.

The oldest surviving spice boxes for Havdalah date to the mid-sixteenth century.