Boxes at Auction

Exquisite shagreen cigar case with silver collar. Expands for differing lengths of small cigar or cigarettes. Made in the U.K. in the 1900-1920´s. It has the stamp of the retail sho...

Large rectangular table box with long rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled stripes in Art Deco style. With “lost” hinge, i.e. semi-invisible. Dimensions cm. 10.5 x 15 x 2.3. Weight gr. 548. Inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s in Art Deco style and recreated for Cartier USA in the 1980s, manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick and thick slabs reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 800° C. About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier. Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation. Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ". With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones. At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists. In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001. In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State". We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue. An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier catalogue...

A classic antique solid Silver Cigar Box / Cigarette Box with a highly polished silver exterior. The interior of the Silver Box has a cedar wood lined base and the lid is gilded. The interior has a removable wooden...

Chinese export silver cylindrical box. Singular writhing repoussè dragon with flames motif wraps around the base. The lid of the box features another...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique 14 carat yellow gold, hot enamel and 0.30 carat diamond compact made by Tiffany & Co - boxed; an addition to our diverse ornamental collection This exceptional antique 14 carat yellow gold compact case has a rectangular rounded form. The anterior and posterior surfaces of the case are embellished with impressive cream coloured hot enamel, accented with paralleling black borders with incurved corners. The anterior surface of the case is ornamented with an applied oval cartouche, incorporating a ribbon box decorated frame accented with twenty-nine Dutch cut diamonds, totalling 0.30ct The anterior edge of the compact features a push fit catch ornamented with further black enamel decoration. This impressive antique compact opens to reveal the original integrated mirror and two powder compartments. Each makeup compartment features a flush hinged cover, with a subtle protruding thumbpiece to either side; the flush hinge indicates the high quality of the piece. The upper rim of the compact is fitted with an impressive yellow gold chain handpiece, accented with six tubular designs ornamented with further cream and black hot enamel decoration. The interior rim of the antique mirror bears the renowned maker's/retailer's mark 'Tiffany & Co' and the 14ct gold fineness mark (14K). This exceptional Tiffany & Co compact case in gold is fitted to the original hinged leatherette presentation box with a satin and velvet lined interior, securing with a push fit catch; such an example in the original box is rare to the market. The interior of the box bears the retailer's mark 'Tiffany & Co'. This exceptional case is the finest of its type you could hope to acquire. Condition This antique Tiffany compact...

Turn-of-the-century Austrian 835 silver horse-themed box. Made by George Adam Scheid in Austria. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover hinged with triangular tab. On cover top is en...

This is a really cute and rare find, a 1930's Art Deco compact with the most delightful green and black enamel decoration on a chrome casing . The interior is an engineers delight wi...

Heavy Cartier sterling silver reeded table box from the mid-century modern era. Rectangular with domed and ribbed top; straight sides; ribbed front and ba...

CARTIER Sterling Silver and Vermeil cigarette boxes, France, Circa 1930. Stamped CARTIER PARIS LONDRES Red velvet Cartier pouch. Dimensions: H.1/2" x W.4"7/8 x D.3"1/2 Weight: 5.87 O...

Art Deco sterling combination sovereign compact card or cigarette Case, American, circa 1920 by Webster Co. Rectangular cushion shape with hand chain ...

This antique jewelry box is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from Japan and date to approximately 1920 and done in the period Japanese Export style. The box is composed of s...

Japanese box from the Meiji Period (1868-1912). Beautiful antique rectangular colorful box, created in Japan during the Meiji period (1868-1912), circa 1890's. It was carefully cr...