Nelialee Art Deco Red Traveling Cosmetic Toilet Vanity Case with Accessories

Gorgeous trinket box or powder jar featuring an ornate scroll and lattice design sterling silver overlay over a pretty pink porcelain. The mark on the bottom is not legible.

Square guilloche enamel gilt jeweled compact with hand painted portrait of a period lady. This gold tone metal compact with red guilloche enamel and l...

1930s Czech Art Deco cranberry red enamel and clear glass vase featuring a geometric shaped flaring body vase with a 12 sided foot base. The vase ...

Beautifully made hinged silver compact featuring a floral design on the top section with a flower basket in the middle of a floral wreath and star. There are more flowers on the outer edge. Inside is a beveled glass mirror with a twist rope border, The sides have a scruff leaf design and the back is an attractive machine turned pattern of concentric circles. There is a Austrian bird...

WORKING Motorola town and country portable AM Radio. The chassis is model HS-226. This is a 5 tube Transoceanic type 1V tubes. It has the original cord. There...

Highly stylized sterling silver vinaigrette, pill or snuff box by famed English silversmith William Simpson circa 1826 featuring a hand hammered raised floral design along the edges ...

A late Victorian fine crocodile skin travel luggage by Drew & Sons London, circa 1890s. In dark green colour with brassed lock and catches. Opening up to reveal matching green lined interior in watered silk, with side pockets for various hallmarked silver cut glass jars, leather bound accessories and other articles nécessaires. Accompanying accessories includes 5 cut glass jars of various sizes with hallmarked silver lids, 1 set of mini hair curling tongs with butane burner stove and a lighter box, 1 ink box with accompanying quilted pens, Mother of pearl trimmed manicure set...

1920s Art Deco gold & enamel vanity case by Cartier 14k Gold. signed Cartier Weight: 112.7 grams Dimensions: Width 3 in, Height 0.44 in approximately.

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...

The rectangular-shaped blue enamel vanity case with silver-coloured enamel borders and carved Coral and rose-cut diamond clasp opening to reveal a mirror, two powder compartments and...

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...

This is an antique travelling vanity box. An English, leather bound campaign correspondence case, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1880....