Set Of 19th Century Brass Fire Tools

A charming and particularly good quality mid-19th century, Victorian Period, rosewood perfume scent box, with attractive brass bound decoration and hinged li...

A Fine Quality Late 19th Century, Victorian Period, Figured Walnut Wellington Chest, Of Attractive Small Proportions, Having Rectangular Top Over Seven Extremely Well Figured Drawers, With Replacement Brass Ring Handles, Flanked By Pilasters Headed With Elegant Carved Corbels And Well Figured Ends, Raised On Original Plinth Base. The first Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, commissioned the first chest of this type, i.e. a tall bank of drawers secured by hinged locking pilasters to take with him and carry around various battlefields and that is where the name wellington chest comes from. It is now used to refer to almost any tall, narrow antique chest of drawers. From around 1820 onwards they were manufactured in a huge variety of shapes and sizes, plus they varied a great deal in terms of both their quality and the wood which they were constructed from. This particular antique wellington chest of...

A set of three Victorian 19th century brass fire Irons consisting of a poker, a shovel, and a pair of tongs, each with a spiral and pommel finial handle. English, circa 1890.

A set of three 19th century Victorian polished brass fire iron tools consisting of a poker, a decoratively cast shovel, and a pair of tongs with a snake style hilt, each with an orna...