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Material: Bone
Antique French Louis XV Ormolu Mounted Tortoiseshell Patch or Rouge Box
Located in London, GB
A lovely little antique French Louis XV casket of scarlet tortoiseshell with superb ormolu mounts. Set on ormolu paw feet and with a profusion of ormolu mounts this lovely little box...
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1760s French Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

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Ormolu

1905 Edwardian Leather, Tortoiseshell and Silver Mounted Letter Box
Located in Morristown, NJ
1905, England, Unusual and striking Edwardian letter box with leather sides. The curved top and base are mounted with scrolling sterling silver. T...
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Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

Russian Carved bone table box - 18th century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Russian Carved bone table box Carved bone table box North of Russia, 18th century 12,5 x 23,2 x 7 cm Rectangular box with a wooden core in bone veneer...
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18th Century Russian Louis XV Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

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Bone, Wood

Fine 17th Century Dutch Colonial Armorial Tortoiseshell & Silver Box, Dated 1691
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A dutch tortoiseshell box with two engraved silver plaques Amsterdam, 1691, with maker's mark of Steven des Rousseaux (1654-1733) H. 5 cm Diam. 12.5 cm Note: Steven des ...
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17th Century Dutch Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

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Sterling Silver

Orange, Natural Bone Cheveron Box
Located in New York, NY
Cheveron patterned keepsake, letter box made from dyed orange and natural bone. Box has a wood lining.
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21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Palmwood

Black, Grey Striped Bone Keepsake Box
Located in New York, NY
Hand made, large scale document/keepsake box clad in hand dyed black, grey bone tiles in a striped pattern. Hand polished, some with hand etching detail.
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21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Modern Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Wood

Mudejar Style Andaluza Box, Faux Tortoiseshell, Bone Inlays, Silver-Plated Brass
Located in Bosques de las Lomas, MX
Box inspired by Mudejar-style works from the XVIIIth Century, inlaid with faux tortoiseshell, bone and ebony forming geometric figures. The hardware is made of silver-plated brass.  
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Natural, Turquoise Bone Moorish Box
Located in New York, NY
Decorative keepsake/jewelry box clad in natural and dyed bone tiles. Top is in a Moorish motif of inlaid Turquoise bone elements. Handcrafted.
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21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Moorish Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Wood

Graphic Pattern Blue / Natural Bone Box
Located in New York, NY
Graphic patterned keepsake box clad in natural and ink blue dyed bone. Tiles are hand set on a wood box.
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21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Modern Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone

Boho Chic Moroccan Inlaid Bone Jewelry Chest or Box with Brass Inlay
Located in Plainview, NY
A decorative handmade orange bone and black tribal design chest or jewelry box. The chest interior is leather and features gorgeous brass inlay design with natural decorative stones.
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1980s Moroccan Tribal Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Anglo Indian Micro Mosaic Inlay Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
Exquisitely crafted early 20th century Anglo Indian micro mosaic Sadeli box with gorgeous antique Persian geometric pattern. The finely detailed box featu...
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Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Bone Decorative Boxes

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Fruitwood, Bone

Tessellated Horn Jewelry Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Maitland Smith tessellated horn jewelry box.
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1980s Philippine Hollywood Regency Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes

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Horn

XL Polished Horn Rectangular Segment Box
Located in New York, NY
Large scale decorative box clad in heat set dimensional horn pieces hand set over a wood structure. A great storage solution to add to any coffee table, dresser or desk.
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21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Horn, Wood

Whaler Made Bone and Ebonized Wood Round Lidded Box, circa 1850
Located in Stamford, CT
Whaler made antique bone and ebonized wood round box, circa 1850. With pierced bone medallion and delicately carved bone spiral decorative supports on the...
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Mid-19th Century American Folk Art Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Wood

Midcentury Bone Inlaid Chest Box or Jewelry Casket
Located in Plainview, NY
Midcentury bone inlaid chest box or jewelry casket mesmerizing decorative patterns and extraordinary sculptural and design details provide this authe...
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Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone

Vintage Wood & Bone Inlay Dome Top Jewelry Casket Treasure Chest Trinket Box
Located in Dayton, OH
Mid 20th century jewlery casket or trinket box. Beautifully designed in the form of a dome top trunk with exotic wood and striped bone inlay. Feat...
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Mid-20th Century Rustic Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Hardwood

19C Anglo Indian Sadeli Mosaic Greeting Card Case
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a superb 19C Anglo Indian Sadeli Mosaic greeting card case. Made in or around Bombay, India circa 1880. This is a greeting card case used for holding your greeting cards or business cards of the day ! The body of the case is made from sandalwood and it is fully overlaid with bone and highly intricate Sadeli Mosaic made up of thousands of micro mosaic pieces of bone, ebony, silver/pewter and semi precious stone. The workmanship is stupenduous !!!! This case is almost museum quality. One or two very, very minor losses of mosaic mainly where the top meets the body but otherwise near mint ! SADELI MOSAIC: “Anglo Indian boxes were made in India for the English residents from the early part of the 18th century. They were brought back or sent back to England usually by the people who had commissioned them. From the beginning of the nineteenth century they were imported more commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the middle decades. They were very highly valued, especially the early ones, to the extent that the designs were copied on late 19th and early 20th century tins. The ancient art of Sadeli Mosaic is said to have been introduced from Shiraz in Persia via Sind to Bombay, a long time before the Anglo Indian boxes were made. It was a technique, which required a high degree of skill and patience. It was executed very lavishly, in that the frequent cuts wasted a great amount of the precious materials used. The workmanship was however more than commensurable to the value of the materials. Ivory, silver, pewter (or other metals), wood and horn were cut into faceted rods which were bound together to form geometric patterns. When the glue has set, the rods were sliced in transverse sections. This gave the maker a number of angled circular pieces in the original pattern. Several variations of patterns could be achieved by combining the materials in different ways. The ivory was sometimes dyed green to give an extra color. The mosaic pieces in a combination of patterns, often separated by ivory, ebony, horn or silver stringing were used to veneer sandalwood boxes. In the early boxes, which date from the turn of the 18th to the 19th century, there are large panels of mosaic covering tops and sides of boxes. It took incredible skill to cover such large areas without any shakes or wavering of the pattern. The corners and joins on these boxes are impeccably matched. The makers (reputed to be Persian) of Sadeli mosaic made in the first two decades of the 19th century displayed a total understanding of the qualities of the different materials they used. They combined substances, which can expand and contract according to atmospheric conditions with others, which are hard and unyielding. The result was a sharp definition of the lines and patterns, which made up the whole design. On the early boxes the designs look deceptively simple. The fact is, they emerged from a culture, which had mastered geometry and understood how to generate a pattern from a set number of points. The patterns are so harmoniously combined that their incredible complexity is not immediately apparent. The earliest Sadeli boxes...
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Late 19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

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Bone, Precious Stone, Ebony

Tessellated Horn and Wood Veneer Trinket Box in the Style of R & Y Augousti
Located in San Diego, CA
A very well crafted tessellated horn and wood veneer trinket box in the style of R & Y Augousti, circa 1990s. The piece is in very good condition and measures 4.75" W x 4.75" D x 3.2...
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Late 20th Century North American Organic Modern Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Horn, Wood

Silver and Tortoiseshell Singing Bird Box by Bontems, circa 1900
Located in London, GB
A beautiful Singing bird box by bontems of Paris, Circa 1900. Tortoisesheel embellished with sterling silver, with silver and enamel lid.
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Early 1900s French Late Victorian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

Mid Century Shell Box
Located in Tampa, FL
A beautifully made 1970s bone and Indian silver box in the shape of a shell. A very pretty box. The interior measures 3.5".
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1970s Indian Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

19C Anglo Indian Vizigapatam Stamp Box
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an absolutely gorgeous and very rare 19C Anglo Indian Vizigapatam stamp box. Made in Colonial India (the Time of the Raj) circa 1860. Prob...
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Mid-19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Shell

Mid-Century Bone Tessellated Trinket Box
Located in New York, NY
Mid-century bone trinket box. With a wooden interior. 5" L x 3.5" W x 3.75" D. With slight wear to the interior wood.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Wood

Carl Auböck Box, Austria, 1960s
Located in Berlin, DE
Carl Auböck horn and brass box, Austria 1960s.
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1960s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

17th-18th Century Spanish Colonial Box With Domed Top
Located in Dallas, TX
Spanish Colonial inlaid bone and faux tortoiseshell domed top box. Original hammered iron hinges. Circa 1680-1740. Excellent condition and very rare.
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1690s Spanish Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

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Iron

Antique Victorian Silver Card Case Trinket and Snuff Box Regency Grand Tour 19ct
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning Example of a Ladies Well Figure Tortoise Shell Silver Framed Hinged Lid Card Case of generous proportions, made during the first half of the Nineteenth Century. The rectangular hinged cover with lavish silver inlay depicting a trailing branch of flowers and foliage. Condition: Good condition for such an early piece with no losses to inlays, nice surface patination to tortoiseshell. The case closes firmly. Width: (at widest, just over) 5.5" (14cm). Depth: 3” (8cm). ----------------------------------- An oval well figured horn trinket box with separate lid, late Nineteenth Century Condition: Perfect condition, lid closes firmly Width: 4.5” (11.5cms). Depth: 2.25” (5.5cms). ------------------------------------ Rectangular well figured Tortoiseshell hinged lid trinket or snuff box, possibly Regency period Condition: Tiny loss at one corner, otherwise excellent. Width: (just under) 3.5” (8.5cms). ------------------------------------ Rectangular horn and Tortoiseshell Snuff Box...
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19th Century English Regency Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

Large Mainland Smith Jewelry Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large Maitland Smith jewelry box with mixed stones and brass details.
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1980s Philippine Hollywood Regency Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone

Antique French Bronze Dore Portrait Box
Located in Tampa, FL
A strikingly beautiful French dore bronze box is all engraved with an ivory picture of an aristocrat, LeBron. The box is heavily chased with a velvet i...
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1890s French Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bronze

Antique Middle Eastern Box
Located in Tampa, FL
This is an Indian box with the Taj Mahal artwork on bone. This fabulous box is quite large and in very good condition. There are also four portraits in the corners. Circa 1890’s.
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1890s Indian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Wood, Paint

Mudejar Small Coffer with Bone Inlays, Faux Tortoiseshell and an Iron Hardware
Located in Bosques de las Lomas, MX
The small Mudejar coffer is decorated with stars using bone inlay, faux tortoiseshell and ebony. It also has a masterfully crafted iron lock.  
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Iron

Carl Auböck Comb and Brush in a Box, Austria, 1960s
Located in Berlin, DE
Carl Auböck brush and comb in a box, Austria, 1960s.
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1960s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Horn, Wood

Carl Auböck Box with Comb and a Brush, Austria, 1960s
Located in Berlin, DE
Carl Auböck brush and comb in a box, Austria 1960s.
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1960s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood, Horn

French 19th Century Louis XIV St. Boulle Boîte À Bijouax, Signed Tahan
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A spectacular and extremely high quality French 19th century Louis XIV st. Boulle Boîte à Bijoux, signed "Tahan - Fournisseur du Roi" (Royal cabinetmake...
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19th Century French Louis XIV Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Mudejar style Diamonds Small Coffer with sgraffito bone decore & iron details
Located in Bosques de las Lomas, MX
This mudejar styled small coffer is inspired by the XVIIth Century and is decorated with sgraffito bone with iron details.
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Late 19th Century Tortoise Shell Needle Case with Mother of Pearl Inlay
Located in Stamford, CT
Late 19th century tortoise shell needle case with a mother of pearl inlay. A knife box shape with a hinged lid and a package of the original needles in the original packaging marked ...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

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Tortoise Shell, Mother-of-Pearl

Austrian Tortoise Shell Silver Box
Located in Delft, NL
Austrian Tortoise shell Silver box Austrian Tortoise shell Silver box in the shape of an envelope with a flap. The flap is with a spring. The box is marked with the Austrian Silve...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

Tessellated Bone Box Style of Enrique Garcel
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish tessellated bone and mahogany box is very much in the style of pieces created by Karl Springer and Enrique Garcel in the 1970s-1980s.
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Late 20th Century Colombian Modern Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Wood

Tessellated Bone Large Box By Robert Marcius
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
Dimensions: 12.25W x 8.25D x 7.75H, In great condition.  
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Late 20th Century Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone

Danish Early 19th Century Empire Tobacco Box
Located in Kastrup, DK
A charming mahogany tobacco box in an architecturally intriguing form. The top of the lid is adorned with a small knob of bone. Great quality and craftsmanship. Empire. Denmark, ...
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Early 19th Century Danish Empire Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Mahogany

Grey, Red Bone Tile Box
Located in New York, NY
Hand Crafted keepsake/desk box featuring hand cut and polished grey and red bone tiles over a wood box.
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21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Modern Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Wood

English Tortoiseshell Box
Located in New York, NY
English tortoiseshell box. Ovoid shaped lidded snuffbox with integral handle of richly patterned tortoiseshell, England, circa 1900. Dimensions: 3.5...
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Early 1900s English Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Tortoise Shell

Regency Anglo Indian Quill Work Vizagapatam Sandalwood Sewing Box
Located in New York, NY
This fine Regency period quill work, bone, ivory & sandalwood sewing box with intact interior w sewing implements.
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Early 19th Century Indian Regency Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Sandalwood, Ivory

19C Anglo Ceylonese Sewing Box of Museum Quality
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an absolutely stunning 19c Anglo Ceylonese sewing box of museum quality. Made in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) circa 1860, this is one of the finest sewing boxes of it’s kind that we have ever seen! The box is made from coromandel wood (an exotic hardwood found in Ceylon) and has a serpentine edging all over the front, back and sides. Very often the lids/tops of these boxes suffer cracks due to shrinkage but this one is near perfect with no crack in the lid/top. There is some evidence of natural shrinkage but that is around the edges of the lid/top. It is when you open this box that it reveals it’s true beauty, quality and treasure ! The inside of the lid/top is heavily and beautifully decorated with inlaid bone in scrolling floral patterns which have then been hand painted with red and black ‘lac’ ink. The central medallion is a circle of inlaid specimen exotic hardwoods radiating towards a central bone and hand painted flower. The circle is edged in bone, wood and silver chevrons. What makes this box Exceptionally rare is that it contains 3 lift out base sections. Normally, there would be a maximum of 2. The first tray/section is clearly for the purposes ancillary to sewing with a pair of sections with bone spools for thread etc. There are 17 other lidded compartments with each one highly decorated using hand painted bone and specimen woods to replicate tortoiseshell. The first tray lifts out to reveal a second removeable tray which is made up of a pair of open sections and 8 specimen wood lidded sections each with chevron banding. The third tray is a smaller tray underneath with 14 lidded compartments each with hand painted bone and specimen wood inlaid lids again, replicating the look of tortoiseshell. Again they are banded with a chevron border. This is a museum quality piece ! It is in fantastic condition for it’s age with the minor shrinkage to the edges of the lid/top, some finger pulls missing and some very minor cracks to the tray lids and bases but nothing that in any way detracts from the piece. No key. Dimensions: Closed the box is 16.75 inches wide, 11.25 inches deep and 7.5 inches high Fully open the box is 16.5 inches high, 16.75 inches wide and 11.4 inches deep Anglo-Indian and ceylonese boxes: Anglo Indian boxes were made in India for the English residents from the early part of the 18th century. They were brought back or sent back to England usually by the people who had commissioned them. From the beginning of the nineteenth century they were imported more commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the middle decades. They were very highly valued, especially the early ones, to the extent that the designs were copied on late 19th and early 20th century tins. Anglo-Indian boxes normally consist of 3 main types:- (1) Most of the best and highest quality Anglo-Indian boxes in the 18th and 19th centuries were made in Vizagapatam, India, renowned for its exquisite craftsmanship in using ivory and tortoiseshell and lac decoration. These are referred to as ‘Vizagapatam Boxes...
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Mid-19th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

19C Anglo Ceylonese Lap Desk of Museum Quality
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an absolutely fantastic 19C Anglo Ceylonese lap desk of museum quality. We can safely say that this is one of the finest lap desks we hav...
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Early 19th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

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Bone, Ebony, Sandalwood

Dimensional Black Carved Bone Box
Located in New York, NY
Handcrafted keepsake, desk box featuring hand carved diamond shaped black bone tiles, lined in wood. A great accessory for a desk or a coffee table.
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21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Wood

Swedish 19th Century Birchwood Veneer Jewelry Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Swedish 19th century birchwood veneer jewelry box. The box has a heart of brass for keyhole and knob hardware of antler.
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19th Century Swedish Rustic Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Birch

Cut Crystal Jar with Tortoise and Silver Top, England, 1923
Located in Stamford, CT
A beautiful cut crystal jar with a tortoise shell and silver top from a private collection made in England in 1923.
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Early 20th Century English Bone Decorative Boxes

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Crystal, Silver

Tessellated Horn and Cedar Wood Box
Located in San Diego, CA
A very well crafted tessellated Horn cedar wood box, circa 1980s. The piece is very heavy and solid and measures 6.375"W x 4.5"D x 3.5"H.
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Late 20th Century North American Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Horn, Cedar

Victorian Miniature Black forest Antler Casket 1860
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A marvelous antique rustic casket. It is made of wood, veneered with antler pieces. On top an antler plaque with staghound carving. The feet are made of ...
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Mid-19th Century German Black Forest Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Antler, Wood

19th Century Sewing Box by Maison Aucoc, Paris
Located in Paris, FR
Late 19th century oval sewing box decorated with crowned monogram. The case contains five gold and steel sewing utensils embellished with small flowers. Labeled on the inside: AUCOC A PARIS. Weight: 27.6 g, circa 1860 Dimension: W 4.5 in, D 2.4in, H .8in. Dimension: L 11.5cm, P 6cm, H 2cm. La Maison Aucoc...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Gold, Steel

Scandinavian Modern Cigar Box by Knud Albert, 1960s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Along with Alfred Klitgaard Knud Albert is regarded as one of the most prolific wood artist of the 1960s. Although KA is mostly known for his strange moder...
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1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Wood

19th Century English Brass & Bone Banded Calamander Dome Top Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
19th century English brass and bone banded calamander box with dome top.
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19th Century English Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Pair of English Victorian Hammered Metal Boxes
Located in New York, NY
Pair of English Victorian-style (20th Century) hammered silver cylindrical shaped box with scroll design and veneered cover with acorn finial top. (stamped: Royal House) (priced as p...
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20th Century Victorian Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

White Bone Textured Box, India, Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Indian all-over textured lidded white bone box. ARRIVAL TBD    
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone

Tessellated Horn Jewelry Box by Maitland-Smith
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Tessellated horn jewelry box by Maitland-Smith.
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Late 20th Century Philippine Hollywood Regency Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Jade, Brass

Tortoise Shell Sewing Box on Stand, circa 1860
Located in Lambertville, NJ
This wonderful example of a 19th century tortoise shell sewing box on stand opens to original fabric lined interior of compartments with a central ...
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Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Tortoise Shell

19th Century English Tortoiseshell Hinged Box with Silver Decorations
Located in Marbella, ES
19th century English tortoiseshell hinged box with silver decorations.
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19th Century English Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Tortoise Shell

Set of 2 Anglo Indian Boxes
Located in Vosselaar, BE
Set of 2 Anglo Indian boxes. Both early 20th century with bone and faux tortoise decorations. In overall good condition. The bone of the back from the larger box is absent and some s...
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Early 20th Century Indian Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Wood

Burlwood Erotic Snuff Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
There is much more to this exquisite Georgian snuffbox than meets the eye. Beautifully crafted of striking burlwood, this unassuming box features a lining of precious tortoiseshell and a false bottom, which, when gently unscrewed, reveals a miniature erotic painting of exceptional detail. Erotic antiques...
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19th Century English Other Antique Bone Decorative Boxes

Materials

Tortoise Shell, Burl

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