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Palais Royal Mother of Pearl, Ormolu and Painted Porcelain Jewellery Box
Located in London, GB
A superb early 19th Century Palais Royal, engraved mother of Pearl, Ormolu and painted porcelain Jewellery Box. Wonderful quality on this piece, the hand painted porcelain panel depi...
Category
Antique 1830s French Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
Silver and Guilloche enamel Cigar or Cigarette Humidor or box by Albert Carter
Located in London, GB
A fine and good sized George VI silver and guilloche enamel cigar or cigarette humidor or case by Albert Carter. Superb green guilloche enamel with gold fleur de lys. The engine turn...
Category
Vintage 1950s British Cigar Boxes and Humidors
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Silver Gilt and Full Radial Guilloche Enamel Singing Bird Box with Original Key
Located in London, GB
A sublime silver gilt and full radial guilloche enamel with highlights, singing bird box, with original silver and enamel key and original leather carry case. When wound and the bird-form start/stop button actuated, the magic starts immediately with the bird lid...
Category
Vintage 1920s Austrian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Silver and Purple Guilloche enamel Snuff or Card box by George Stockwell & Co
Located in London, GB
A quite superb silver and purple, engine turned, guilloche enamel snuff or card box. This Art Deco box, set with pink faceted stone and marcasite's, stamped '935', London import mark...
Category
Vintage 1920s English Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Silver plate and Shagreen Cigarettte Case
Located in London, GB
A fine and unusual silver plate and shagreen cigarette case. Shagreen was a popular but rare material used in the 19th century on certain fine pieces, such as clocks and cases. Its b...
Category
Antique 1890s English Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Shagreen
Silver Shibayama Matchstick or small Cigarette Case
Located in London, GB
A fine and rare silver Shibayama matchstick or small cigarette case. Silver hallmarks for Birmingham 1925, and makers mark for Henry Williamson Lt...
Category
Vintage 1920s English Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Silver and Shibayama tobacco box with combination vesta case lid
Located in London, GB
A very fine and rare silver shibayama tobacco and combination vesta case lid and strikers on pot. Decorated with individual hand crafted insects in semi precious stones. The Shiba...
Category
Vintage 1910s English Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Silver Shibayama Cigarette Case
Located in London, GB
A fabulous and rare silver Shibayama cigarette case, exquisitely decorated with 19 individual hand crafted insects in semi precious stones. This superb piece bares silver hallmark...
Category
Vintage 1910s Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Silver Shibayama Cigarette Case
Located in London, GB
A very fine and rare silver Shibayama cigarette case, exquisitely decorated with 18 individual hand crafted insects in semi precious stones. This superb piece bares silver hallmark...
Category
Vintage 1910s Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Silver & glass box with inset miniature by Georg Adam Scheid
Located in London, GB
A beautiful silver box with blue glass liner & with fine miniature in watercolour of a young woman. The miniature surrounded with silver swags & wreaths & the cover with engine turn...
Category
Antique 1890s Austrian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Italian silver gilt and enamel card case with fine watercolour
Located in London, GB
Italian silver gilt and enamel card case with fine watercolour. Beautifully engraved silver case with exceptional silver work on the bottom. The top and sides are mottled with enamel...
Category
Antique 1890s Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
A silver gilt and Imperial Yellow guilloche enamel singing bird box
Located in London, GB
A very fine silver gilt and Imperial Yellow guilloche enamel singing bird box with timepiece, by C. A. Marguerat, with a Nightingale on the lid. The Nightingale has appeared in many...
Category
Vintage 1920s Swiss Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Composition tortoiseshell and gilt metal singing bird box
Located in London, GB
A good antique composition tortoiseshell and gilt metal singing bird box,
German
circa 1900
Going-barrel movement
Setting the birds free...
When wound and the sta...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Antique Tortoiseshell singing bird box, by Bontems
Located in London, GB
A antique tortoiseshell singing bird box, by Bontems
Circa 1890,
Going-barrel movement,
Motor-view light anomaly...
When wound and start/...
Category
Antique 1890s French Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Antique Pictorial enamel and underbelly-cut tortoiseshell singing bird box
Located in London, GB
A fine antique pictorial enamel and underbelly-cut tortoiseshell singing bird box,
Circa 1910,
Going-barrel movement,
Soft streaks of light throughout this fabulous case...
When wound and start/stop slide moved to the right, the bird emerges through the pierced and tooled gilt grille, moving bone beak, wings and body from side-to-side to continuous synchronized birdsong.
With the bird displaying...
Category
Antique 1890s Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Silver and Enamel Art Deco Musical Cigarette and Singing Bird Box
Located in London, GB
A rare and exquisite silver and enamel Art Deco musical cigarette and singing bird box.
the singing bird with good multitone feathered plumage with highlights in red, yellow and blue, moving beak, tailfeather, flapping wings and turning in-sync to the continuous and melodic birdsong, rising through chased and pierced gilt grille, bird-form centrum, matt gilt bird lid interior, actuated by pull to the side.
The separate musical movement within the case playing the rondo theme from the Fledermaus waltz by Strauss, from the single-air cylinder Cruendet movement, actuated from hidden start/stop pin in the cigarette compartment lid.
The lined interior for cigarettes with matching matt gilt interior, within the stunning high-Art Deco case of rectangular form, with twin ovals with turquoise enamel ground and chased diamond-form gilt centres, one of which is the bird lid, all framed by ever decreasing alternate white enamel and tooled silver bands, the widths and ends of the case with matching design and with oblong centres, cigarette lid with plain raised thump grip, the underside with matt gilt finish, captive musical movement winding key and singing bird winding spindle, all raised upon four elegant silver bracket feet...
Category
Vintage 1920s French Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
French Tortoiseshell and Gold Inlaid Purse
Located in London, GB
A French Tortoiseshell and gold inlaid purse with red silk inner lining. A very pretty and unusual item, the tortoiseshell in very good condition.
Category
Antique 1880s French Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold
Silver-Gilt, Guilloche Turquoise Enamel Timepiece Alarm Clock Singing Bird
Located in London, GB
An extremely fine vintage richly-hued silver-gilt, guilloche turquoise enamel and pictorial enamel timepiece alarm-actuated singing bird box, by C. A. Marguerat.
When 8-day clock movement wound and set to the correct time, the alarm train wound and desired actuation hour selected, separate singing bird movement wound from underside, the magic starts with the fast-paced gong running for approximately 5 seconds before the bird lid...
Category
Vintage 1920s Swiss Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
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...
Category
Antique 1760s French Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Tortoiseshell Singing Bird Box, Most Probably by Bontems
Located in London, GB
A antique tortoiseshell singing bird box, most probably by Bontems,
Going barrel movement,
Gilt metal two-tone brilliance...
When wound and start/stop slide moved to the right, the bird pops up through foliate chased gilt grille, then proceeds to move bone beak, wings and body from side-to-side to good complex continuous synchronized birdsong.
The bird with streaked feathered plumage in brown, yellow, turquoise and red, lime green and purple iridescent highlights, highly polished lid interior for full bird reflection, in plain polished tortoiseshell case, twinned laurel leaf engraved bird lid border with the bird lid engraved with love birds and rose united beneath leaf swag arch, accentuated with gilt on silvered ground, hidden key...
Category
Antique 1880s French Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Silver, Black Enamel and Marquesite Card Case
Located in London, GB
An attractive silver, silver gilt, black enamel and marquesite card case. The case in excellent condition with no chips or repairs. Most unusual clip which forms part of the case its...
Category
Vintage 1930s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Musical Palais Royal Ring Stand and Jewellery Box, of Cupid with Harp
Located in London, GB
A fine, early and very unusual Palais Royal Cupid and Harp musical box
with two-air cylinder movement. The finely modelled cupid sits upon an Empire stool and plays a classical 16 s...
Category
Antique 1830s Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
Gilt Bronze, Pearl and Enamel Singing Bird Box by Bontems, circa 1890
By Bontems
Located in London, GB
A stunning gilt bronze and seed pearl singing bird box by Bontems of Paris - CIRCA 1890.
The bird rises from beneath the enamal oval lid and is sure to delight!
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Victorian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Silver and Tortoiseshell Singing Bird Box by Bontems, circa 1900
By Bontems
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.
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Late Victorian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Silver, Gold Enamel and Pearl Double Singing Bird Clock
Located in London, GB
This wonderful modern masterpiece has been created using original antique and vintage elements. The beautiful silver and guilloche enamel case da...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Silver, Enamel
Very Early 19th Century Engine Turned Silver Gilt Musical Snuff Box
Located in London, GB
A very early 19th century and fine engine turned silver gilt musical snuffbox. The case stamped F.M. and with early 19th century Swiss export marks and European import marks. Comb bar stamped C.Z bedplate C6. Serial number 147. The cylinder movement with three train weighted escape, 23 part sectional comb with all teeth in pairs, comb bar and fitting screws blued, engraved in script in bedplate verso- 'Jn. Pre. Desire, A Geneva, fecit, an 1813'. Playing a complex single air, in the small superbly engine tooled case...
Category
Antique 1810s Swiss Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silk
Silver Gilt Pill Box Engine Turned with English Hallmark for 1909
Located in London, GB
A silver gilt and jewelled pill box probably Austrian but with English import marks for London, 1905. Very fine quality with the silver gilt completely intact and mint within the box...
Category
Antique Early 1900s English Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
English Regency Cranberry Glass and Toleware Box with Inset Embroidery
Located in London, GB
A magnificent English Regency oval cranberry glass dressing table box with toleware lid inset with embroidery surrounding a colour wash print. The cranberry glass with deep cut diamo...
Category
Antique 1820s English Regency Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Glass
George III Rococco Pressed Tortoiseshell, Ormolu, Bilston/Battersea Snuff Box
Located in London, GB
An extremely rare antique English George III Rococo pressed tortoiseshell, ormolu and Battersea enamel snuff box. This beautiful oblong box is in pristine condition and has been well...
Category
Antique 1760s English Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu
Gold Diamond and Sapphire Scent Bottle, French, circa 1900
Located in London, GB
This beautiful scent bottle is crafted from rock crystal with an 18-karat gold top mounted with diamonds and a single Sapphire.
In excellent origina...
Category
Early 20th Century French Bottles
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold
