This famous casket was excavated in 1908 at Shah-ji-ki-Dheri, Peshawar, and was described by D.B. Spooner in a Report of the Archaeological Survey of India, 1908-9, which included photographs showing the appearance of the casket after it was first cleaned by the excavator. The present article will describe the condition of the casket when it was received from the Peshawar Museum by the British Museum Research Laboratory and the method used in its restoration, together with an account of certain technical features of the object (Pl.XXX, and Fig. 12).