Very nice box all the same. It does appear to have been refinished which is very common and even done by well meaning owners in an attempt to freshen up the appearance. The fabric is in far too good a shape to be original but that is even done to modern manufactured boxes by well meaning people to restore not deceive. The boxes size and shape appear to be suitable for a firearm not done by someone repurposing a box designed for something else. Repurposing is a very common use of solidly well built boxes as for those built to house silverware. Lock construction on most repurposed boxes should be well made and solidly mortised. In the era that those boxes were made many people did not own enough valuables to warrant locking their homes. Instead they usually had a set of drawers that could be locked or in the case of a box of cigars locked to keep the kids out as with a firearm. Locks just keep honest people honest.