BOMBAY FITRNITURE. "Bomba.3.- blackv.-ood furniture" is manufactured in the city of Bombay and in the towns of Surat and Ahmadabad in India. The wood used is Shisham or black wood (Dalbergia), a hard-grained dark-coloured timber which with proper treatment assumes a beautiful natural polish. Some of 1 the articles, such as small tables and ornamental stands, are of exceedingly graceful contour, and good examples are highly prized by collectors. The carving at its best is lace-like in character. and apart from its inherent beauty is attractive on account of the ingenuity shown by the worker in adapting his design in detail to the purpose of the article he is fas.hioning. "Bombay boxes are inlaid in geometrical patterns on wood. The inla)-ing materials consist of wire, sandal wood. sapan wood, ebony, ivory and stags' horns, and the effect produced by the combination of minute pieces of these endlessly varied substances is altogether peculiar and dis tinctive.