A very cool small box

Today while cleaning part of the bedroom I dusted this little box on Paul's desk. He has had it as long as I have known him. He said that it was in his mother's family but he doesn't know anything about it; whose it was originally or even what it was used for. He said he used to play with it when he was a child. I tried to Google it, but I really couldn't come up with anything except that I think it is covered in something called parquetry, a thin veneer of wood strips in a mosaic pattern. There are three little boxes inside. I think it is very cool. I wish someone in his family had told the story of this little box!