British Boxes

Art Deco sterling silver box. Made by Henry Matthews in Birmingham in 1927. Square with straight and plain sides. Cover hinged, tabbed, and chamfered. On top parcel gilt with engine-...

This good quality ladies table compendium houses a number functions that a lady would need during the day. Under the hinged lid is a sewing box with compa...

A luxurious humidor, hand made in selected ripple sycamore veneer. With solid sycamore edge mouldings, and sides. The outside of the box is finished in a full gloss, hand burnished lacquer, with a slight pink tint to the colour. The sycamore inside is finished in its natural state, without the colour tint. The humidor has a solid aromatic cedar lining. It is fitted with hand polished brass quadrant hinges and hand polished screws. The lid is an almost air tight fit, and the solid cedar lining will absorb and hold moisture to keep the cigars in perfect condition. The sliding cedar tray is designed to hold a humidifier (not supplied) and other accessories, or single cigars. The capacity of this humidor is about 150 cigars depending on size, stored either in boxes, or separately. Archer and Smith...

William IV period sarcophagus form tea caddy, English, circa 1830. Original interior fitted with a pair of dome-top tea canisters and section for sugar bowl (bowl lacking). Original ...

Silver plated and alligator cigar and cigarette box, the lid is partially covered of crocodile leather and by a silver plated look a like belt strap. T...

Handsome cork and leather tobacco jar from London. Beautiful patina to the cork and leather. Jar can be used as a tobacco, weed, or stash jar. Cork is a clas...

A really charming novelty sterling silver jewelry or ring box modelled in the form of a dressing table including a swing mirror to the back with it's original bevelled mirror. The s...

This is an antique vanity case. An English, rosewood and brass travelling dressing table box, dating to the Regency period, circa 1820. Beautifull...

Antique 20th Century Edwardian solid silver card case with a hinged top. This case has an outer design of a crocodile skin. Hallmarked English silver (925 standard), Birmingham, year...

Charming pewter hinged box, lined with birchwood and engraved 'Christmas 1950' Sits on four pewter feet, is fully functional with excellent interior Circa 1950's Stamped and numbered...

A superb quality vanity case and contents by Mappin and Webb, 1933. In almost unused condition, consisting of three faceted cut glass jars, two faceted cut glass bottles, hand mirror, hair brush, clothes brush, all in silver with top quality pale green guilloche enamel. A tortoiseshell comb with silver cover and a small jewellery box. All without damage. Each piece of silver marked. Each piece with its own compartment housed in the front section of the brown leather case. The case lined in grey silk with two large silk pockets to the inner lid and marked ‘Mappin and Webb Ltd...

Beautiful Tortoiseshell jewellery boxes with silver Edges and curved silver cable legs The Tortoiseshell is of light colour which enable the ...

About as exotic and decorative as they get, this magnificent playing card / games box has a deep red / Burgundy background which is smothered in the most exquisite fine penwork with ...

Antique English Walnut Miniature Chest or Jewel Box, Circa 1890's.

An absolutely charming Regency sewing box in the form of a basket with it's original bentwood folding swing handle. The domed top features a figura...

Cigar Box in the style of École Boulle by JC Vickery with tortoiseshell and brass inlay, on the lid the brass badge isn't engraved. The interior is fitted with cedar wood. No keys. ...

A beautiful vintage Art Deco era sterling silver and enamelled cigarette case. The case has an erotic theme and features a lady topless in a reclined po...

Heading : Tunbridge ware jewellery box Date : 2023 Period : Charles III Origin : Essex Decoration : Central Painted Lady butterfly mosaic within keyli...

Card Box in the style of École Boulle by JC Vickery with tortoiseshell and brass inlay, engraved on the lid by the initials "B.H.C". The interior is fitted with two card sets, a scoring block with pencil and Royal Auction Bridge card game...

This is an antique glove box. An English, oak lidded keepsake or reception key case, dating to the Georgian period, circa 1800. Delightful small b...

PRESENTING A LOVELY Wedgwood Jasperware Pale Blue Square Lidded Trinket Box. Made by Wedgwood in England circa 1970-80 and fully and properly marked/stamped on base. Marked: “Wedgw...

Tortoiseshell cigar holder, with Japanese inspired decoration. Painted and inlaid with some losses. On one side it represent a bird on a branch in the middle of nature and on the oth...

Heading : Amboyana jewellery box and writing slope Date : c1860 Period : Victoria Origin : England Decoration : Bird eye maple box with amboyana ...

Offered for sale is a risque Art Deco Sterling Silver Cigarette Case, often referred to as a "naughty" because of it's bawdy subject matter; that being; of ...

A 19th c. English doghouse for a small dog in the form of a Georgian townhouse in lovely original faded ochre paint with a pitched gable roof with two chimneys with double chimney pots. Great painted detail including 12 over 12 double hung sash windows with stone headers, elliptical fanlight overdoor window and grand arched door frame.

This is an antique correspondence box. An English, aged leather travelling writing case in the manner of Asprey, dating to the mid Victorian period, circa 1860. Appealing Victorian leather writing...

Art Deco "naughty" sterling silver novelty item; a cigarette case depicting a reclining nude woman on a bed in suggestive pose; hand painted enamel on oval raised plaque; with bright...

During the Georgian period the neoclassical manner became increasingly popular in England, resulting in a style of furniture and accessories now associated with elegant restraint. Wh...

This beautiful and very handsome William and Mary Style lace box was designed from old oak timber and then sympathetically covered in an olive oyster veneer...

An attractive and substantial antique sterling silver Aide Memoire and card case. This is a very good quality and heavy sterling silver Aide Memoire with a tan leather interior and ...

Cigar box lined in cedar wood with adjustable compartments. Rectangular in shape with an elegant design and a lid with tortoiseshell edges. The pictures are part of the description....

An early 20th century tortoiseshell and silver piqué work Letter Box. The sloping front is inset with a delicately engraved design comprising of flowerheads and scrolling foliage. Th...

Totally original Art Deco Walnut jewellery box with streamline shape. Made in the UK in the 1930's , still with it's original material lining. The lid of the box depicts a playful sk...

Philip Morris Co Alligator large cigar holder. This cigar box was meant to travel with a dozen of large cigars. The alligator leather is doubled by a layer of calf leather. The pict...

Tortoiseshell box in the shape of a small book, with silver hinges and locks. A small silver round inlaid piece is attached to the bound edge of the book, not yet engraved. The pict...

Wonderful hand produced pot with lid. Turned from Padauk, the colour has mellowed with age, dates from the 1970s. Green baize to the base. Lid removes. In good over all condition.

Superb quality antique Victorian burr walnut brass bound writing box having brass bounded corners and edges around a superior quality burr walnut writing box opening to reveal a writ...

Antique sterling silver small hinged box. Hallmarked Birmingham, England 1909. By A&J Zimmermann. A quirky little trinket box, formed as a serpentine...

Small Alligator Jewellery box, containing a small removable tray for jewellery. On the centre of the lid a metal handle is attached, This box sho...

Small 1905 Tortoiseshell card box, with gilded gold lining and floral decoration. The dates 1860 / 1910 are engraved on the top. Inside the box, two compartment to fit two small card...

Very fine Tortoiseshell box, mounted with a virgin silver plaque, hallmarked silver hinges. Lined with dark blue suede. This shape indicates that this box was used to store a set of ...

Silver and Tortoiseshell jewellery box in the shape of a heart with floral decoration on the lid, silver laces linking the silver parts to th...

This is a stunning antique Victorian Coromandel gentleman's travelling vanity case with fitted interior, circa 1865 in date. This rectagular shaped traveling case is made of rare coromandel wood and features a blank brass plaque. The interior is well fitted with Sheffield silver plate mounted jars, bottles and shaving tools, displayed on fitted blue velvet. The secret button at the front of the case opens a sprung secret drawer below, for your jewellery. The underside of the lid has a velvet backed mirror and a compartment for hiding your letters. Complete with working Bramah lock and original key. It is a beautiful piece which will look stunning on your dressing table. Condition: In really excellent condition. Please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: Height 9 x Width 26 x Depth 19 Dimensions in inches: Height 3 inches x Width 10 inches x Depth 7 inches Calamander wood or Coromandel wood is a valuable wood from India, Sri Lanka and South East Asia. It is of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes (or the other way about), very heavy and hard. It is also known as Macassar Ebony or variegated ebony and is closely related to genuine ebony, but is obtained from different species in the same genus; one of these is Diospyros quaesita Thwaites, from Sri Lanka. The name Calamander comes from the local sinhalese name, 'kalu-medhiriya', which means dark chamber; referring to the characteristic ebony black wood. Coromandel wood has been logged to extinction over the last 2 to 3 hundred years and is no longer available for new work in any quantity. Furniture in coromandel is so expensive and so well looked after that even recycling it is an unlikely source. A substitute, Macassar Ebony, has similar characteristics and to the untrained eye is nearly the same but it lacks the depth of colour seen in genuine Coromandel. Travelling cases became very popular towards the end of the 18th century. They were manufactured specifically to accompany upper class gentleman during travel. Dressing cases were originally rather utilitarian but they spoke volumes about their owners’s wealth and place in society, as at that time, traveling was only done by the elite. Gentleman’s dressing cases would contain bottles and jars for colognes, aftershaves and creams as well as essential shaving and manicure tools. As these boxes became more popular, many further traveling item options were offered for inclusion. By the early Victorian era, ladies also began to travel and suddenly their requirements were anything but utilitarian! Ladies dressing cases could feature a wide range of decorative bottles and jars as well as a vast array of beautifcation tools, all designed with pure luxury in mind. The exterior of the box became almost as important as the interior and these boxes started being veneered with beautiful exotic woods from all over the world. As demand for gentleman’s boxes lessened, the dressing case started to also become known by the more feminine term ‘vanity box’. These boxes, with their excessive price tags, were now considered as true works of art and beauty in themselves, and were often bought as status symbols rather than actual traveling companions. Some of the finest examples of travelling cases made from exotic wood with gold and silver fittings come from: Walter Thornhill, Betjamann & Sons and Jenner...

Large Wedgwood jasperware lidded candy box, beautiful neoclassical style item decorated with antique-style white grapes friezes on a sky-blue background. Second half of 20th century ...

Fitted Interior & Silver Handles From our Tunbridge Ware collection, we are delighted to offer this Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box. The Sewing Bo...

Small Silver and Tortoiseshell jewellery box, with the top of the lid and the bottom of the box being tortoiseshell. The edges of the box is ...

This is an antique workman's tool chest. An English, teak and brass capped craftsman's trunk, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1880. Delightfully time-worn chest with a ro...

George III sterling silver snuffbox. Made by Samuel Pemberton in Birmingham in 1823. Rectangular with chamfered corners and flat hinged cover. Engraved Neoclassical ornament in point...

A large early 20th century crocodile Jewellery Box of rectangular form, the hinged lid centred by flush, brass-sunk carrying handle, initialled 'C....

A Rare 17th-Century Charles II Carved Oak Writing or Desk Box, Circa 1660. England. The box opens on the original butterfly hinges to reveal a fitted interior of three oak-lined dra...

With a Cedar Wood Lining From our Silver collection, we are pleased to offer this Art Deco Sterling Silver Cigar Box. The Cigar Box of rectangular shape crafted from Sterling Silver...

Rosewood and Mother of Pearl From our Sewing Box collection, we are thrilled to offer this pair of Georgian Rosewood Sewing Boxes. The Sewing Boxes of rectangular shape veneered in ...

A fine antique Scottish sterling silver mounted ram's horn snuff mull, set with a large cairngorm gemstone, Edinburgh 1884, by silversmith Peter MacGregor Westren. This rare Scottish...

Rectangular with overall cube parquetry. Lift top. Well executed with a wide choice of exotic woods.Nice patina and presents well. From the estate of the founder of Yankee Candle Com...

An English 19th Century top quality, solid mahogany tea caddy. This shaped box has a carved angular top lined with satinwood opening to a fitted interior. There are two removable fit...

English Silver Cigarette Case Birmingham 1911, Joseph Gloster Ltd. Slightly concave rectangular shape case; front, reverse and outside borde...

Chinoiserie decorated with cover with ball finial over a cylindrical body with lions head rings , lower spigot and pierced square plinth and paw feet.

This large box is a jewelry box or a decorative box. It was made in the 20th century, in England, Period. Its lid is made in wood, Green and brown in color.