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One reason for the trim around the lid is to help hide twisting. The lid trim overlaps the carcass so that some amount of twisting can be hidden and will not show up as a gap between the lid and the carcass sides. On this chest, there is top trim going around the carcass. If it weren’t for this top trim, I don’t think you’d notice the twist as much. The top trim gives a reference line for the eye and you see misalignment between the lid moulding/trim and the carcass top trim. If the top trim were not there, your eye reference is all the way at the bottom of the chest, and you’d likely not notice the small twist (as long as it does not open up a gap). Hope this makes sense. It’s not something you can change now, but I think it was a tradeoff in the design (increasing strength at the top of the chest vs. increasing the fussiness of the closure showing misalignment).