American Decorative Boxes

A very cool solid steel fortune cookie paperweight / box, circa 1980s. The piece opens up to be a small box if you like. It is in very good vintage cond...

A beautiful, almost Folk Art, American industrial steel strong box with a copper plated exterior with squiggly lines etched into the surface. The lock...

Vintage wooden Runkel chocolate crate box with graphics and dovetail detailing. Born in the early 1850s in New Orleans to a German father and French mother with a garment business in the French Quarter, brothers Louis and Herman Runkel arrive in New York. Departing from the family trade, the brothers began making chocolate in Staten Island in the early 1870s. Their 1876 advertisement offered, “For sale, cheap – a five horsepower upright boiler and engine… now running in a chocolate factory,” marks the Runkels’ move from the island where they produced chocolate and cocoa for two years. The brothers then operated a factory uptown at 230 West 30th Street near today’s Penn Station. The first of three major fires afflicting the company over a span of three decades occurred in December 1879. The move to 445 West 30th Street in 1888 would result in a permanent headquarters for the Runkels, where a factory remained into the 1930s; it was rebuilt after a three-alarm fire in 1901 destroyed the original six-story structure. Runkel became known for their Red Ribbon, Vienna Sweet Chocolate, and Chocolat des Marquises, among other proprietary bars and cocoa powder products. Runkel’s tagline was, “I want it, I’ll get it, right in it,” and eventually shortened to, “Right in it.” A popular consumer brand, Runkel Brothers was also one of the first to widely market wholesale liquor and coatings to smaller confectioners. This vintage crate...

Square vintage milk crate, metal and wire in original blue finish. The original markings of the dairy where the milk was produced is marked on one side; The...

19th century maple & cast iron dazey butter churner Measures: 10" wide x 10" deep x 25.5" high This antique butter churner is for display only...

Fabulous early 20th century Pharmaceutical and minerals scale.In excellent vintage condition. Walnut and glass with a slate base creates the housing for the scale. Very cool decorati...

About Rustic wooden boxes with branded company logo. There are five boxes left. 3 at: Large: H 13 in. W 20.5 in. D 17.25 in. 2 at: Medium: H ...

About Rustic wooden boxes with branded company logo. Creator: Independent Lock Company. Date of manufacture: circa 1940s. Materials and t...

About 5 have sold-3 are still available Set of three antique steel drawers with two handles on either side of each drawer. Each drawer has two riveted metal straps that run along ...

Vintage American airlines aluminum catering container box.

About This is an original Kennedy Kit toolbox. A metal toolbox with three latches and a distressed leather handle. The main thumb latch works properly...

This bottle cooler is super retro, it has “Coca-Cola in bottles” written on the front in red and white. With an aluminum ice tray inside, the cooler is still ...