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Antique Brass Mounted Campaign Box. English, C.1850
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Superb campaign box
Brass mounted tropical hardwood
Not sure of its function. Possibly originally a gun case.
Green baize interior. Also a removable tray with brass handles
With ...
Category
English Campaign Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Early Bohemian Enamel Moser large, Bronze Metal Mounted Box and Lid, 1895
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Exceptional vibrant pink floral enamelled basket box and fitted cover with orate bent metal (bronze) fitments with fine detaileled leaf patterns by Moser c 1895. An amazing high quality piece decorated in polychrome enamel posies of flowers, a rare shape with elongated rounded lid and base mounted on bronze bent metal feet and side handles - Often boxes like this show stress on the metal hinges and catches -due to the weight of the glass - but this has been well protected for 130 years and is in amazing condition. Possibly this was originally meant as a sugar casket...
Category
Czech Arts and Crafts Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Art Glass
Antique Anglo-Indian Fluted Writing Box With Secret Drawers. Early 19th Century
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful writing box made from a tropical hardwood
Fabulous shape and plain fluted carving. It gives it a modernist appearance
Probably Sri Lankan
3 secret drawers*
Replaced lea...
Category
Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Romantic Hand Painted Dieppe Floral Snuff Box - France - Early 19th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Romantic hand painted Dieppe bovine bone floral snuff box - featuring a colorful display of flowers set against a solid brown background - the sides decorated with garlands and blue ...
Category
French Romantic Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Paint
English Tortoise Shell Business Card Case with Floral Design, c. 1825-50
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Carte du visite (business card) case of tortoise shell, impressed in relief with a rose within a border of stars.
England, second quarter 19th century.
Category
British Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Antique Lady's Ormolu Bronze Dore Jewellery Box Casket Maison Boissier Paris
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Absolutely stunning French chisel cast Medieval revival Bombe shaped Lady's Jewlery Casket of Museum quality, made during the second quarter of the Nineteenth Century. Firmly attribu...
Category
French Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Ormolu
Regency Leather Bound Writing Slope Sewing Jewellery Box Engraved "K" 1818
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This is a beautifully preserved example of a Regency period writing slope that also functions as a sewing box.
The leather-bound table work box features a stepped square central pan...
Category
British Regency Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Enameled Glass Trinket Box
Located in Rochester, NY
Antique emerald green glass trinket box. 19th century.
Category
European Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass
19th Century English Penwork Box
Located in Charlottesville, VA
This exquisite English penwork box is a fine example of intricate craftsmanship, featuring a beautifully hand-decorated surface with elaborate chinoiserie-style motifs. Delicate gold...
Category
British Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Paper
Antique Pink Opaline Rectangular box with Brass Mounts, France 1890s
Located in South Salem, NY
An antique French opaline glass casket box in a striking pale pink color. The polished glass is mounted with finely detailed gold bronze hardware and feet, adding elegance to the vib...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Opaline Glass
Antique Majolica Adams & Bromley Pineapple Basketweave Sardine Fish Box 6"
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Majolica Sardine fish box / lidded compote attributed to Adams & Bromley. It features a pineapple and basket weave design with Sardine lid handle and purple lavender interio...
Category
Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Majolica
Antique English Regency Rosewood Writing Box David Edwards
Located in Northampton, GB
Hidden Secret Compartment
From our Writing Box collection, we are pleased to offer this Regency Rosewood Writing Box by David Edwards. The Writing Box veneered in Rosewood with exte...
Category
English Regency Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Walnut Gentleman's Vanity Dressing or Travel Box
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Antique Walnut Gentleman's Vanity Dressing or Travel Box. It includes a red velvet interior and original crystal and silver-plated jars and box with a secret compartment that is spri...
Category
French Louis Philippe Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Antique French Blue Opaline Box
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Antique French Blue Opaline Box with brass mounts.
Category
French Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Opaline Glass
19th Century English Medicine Chest by Clay and Abraham, Liverpool
Located in Delft, NL
A 19th century English medicine chest by Clay and Abraham, Liverpool
A small antique mahogany medicine cabinet with brass handle dating from the early 19th century, which opens through the double doors to reveal an arrangement of bottles, with labels and contents, multiple drawers including weighing instruments and weights, mortar and pestle. A trade label on the bottles for Clay, Abraham Chemists, Liverpool. Their Shop on Bold Street
The interior of the medicine chest has 14 compartments with antique glass bottles with stopper...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique English Coromandel Fitted Traveling Vanity Dressing Box, circa 1870
Located in Pearland, TX
A superb antique 19th century English coromandel and rosewood fitted travel vanity or dressing box, circa 1870. This fine box contains the original contents including silverplate lidded cut glass jars, sewing tools...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
19th Century Small Pantry Box with Original Lid
Located in Louisville, KY
This beautifully constructed circular pantry box from the late 19th century is indeed a unique find. It's smaller size makes it particularly unusual. Typically found in one's pantry ...
Category
American Primitive Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Antique Victorian Silver Plated Jewellery Casket Walker and Hall 19thC
Located in London, GB
This is a lovely antique Victorian silver plated casket bearing the makers mark of the renowned silversmiths, Walker and Hall, Circa 1840 in date.
The square casket freatures an epic mythological scene of the four seasons with eight winged cherubs on the lid.
Each side features the four seasons: spring features a bull and a goddess, summer has a lion and a goddess, autumn has a scorpion and a goddess and winter has a cherub and goddess.
The interior of the box features its original quilted buttoned silk upholstery.
Add some elegance to your home with this lovely casket.
Condition:
In excellent condition with no dings, dents or signs of repair. Please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 15 cm x Width 24 cm x Depth 24 cm
Dimensions in inches:
Height 6 inches x Width 9 inches x Depth 9 inches
Walker & Hall
the business was established in Sheffield in 1845 by George Walker who become an assistant of Dr John Wright. Dr John Wright had conducted important experiments on electroplating, Walker secured the royalty of electroplating for Sheffield.
The business was joined by Henry Hall and became in 1853 Walker & Hall. The factory was at Howard Street, Sheffield, while showrooms were opened in 45 Holborn Viaduct, London. Branches were opened in Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Cardiff, Belfast, Hull, Bristol, Melbourne and Adelaide (Australia), Cape Town (South Africa).
Walker & Hall was converted into a limited liability company in 1920 under the style Walker & Hall Ltd and combined in 1963 under the British Silverware...
Category
Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Aesthetic Movement Gothic Style Brass Mounted Stationery Box
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning quality British Aesthetic Movement brass mounted oak stationery box with gothic influences dating from around 1880. The box stands on a wide ...
Category
English Aesthetic Movement Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Palais Royal French Casket Necessaire Vanity Chest 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a fine and well fitted ebonised Gonçalo Alves Palais Royal travel necessaire / vanity chest, by Maison Smal L. Dujat - Palais Royal 7 (Paris), circa 1850 in date.
This sup...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Silver Sugar box, Vienna 1867-1872
Located in Delft, NL
Silver Sugar box, Vienna 1867-1872
An Austrian-Hungary silver sugar box with hinged lid. On the lid a rose with leaves as knob. A rectangular box with beautiful round scalloped body...
Category
Austrian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Late 19th Century Bronze Box - Putti - Renaissance Style
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful bronze box, decorated in renaissance style with putti and decorative ornaments.
The box is in good condition, key is missing. Beautiful colour and patina.
Dimensions: ...
Category
French Renaissance Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Antique metal Pill Box with Mother-of-Pearl inlay to lid, English Edwardian
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a small oval shaped antique metal Pill Box with Mother-of Pearl Inlay dating to the Edwardian or late Victorian period.
The box is made...
Category
English Edwardian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Bronze
19th Century Continental Tortoise Shell Silver Mounted 2 Compartmented Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th-century Continental Tortoise Shell Silver-Mounted 2-Compartmented Box, European, possibly Dutch. Unmarked
A unique and whimsical 19th-century continental tortoise shell silver-...
Category
Dutch Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th C Antique Chess Set Game Regency Shape with 96mm Kings in Pine Lidded Box
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very good and complete handmade, hardwood chess set game of 32 pieces in a handmade pine box with a sliding lid, which we date to the turn of the 19th Century, Circa 1900.
...
Category
British Régence Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Hardwood, Pine
Antique Swedish Wooden storage box 1865 Handmade Folk Craft
Located in Forest, BE
Swedish antique pine and birch wooden storage box. . Fine quality of bentwood. It is a true piece from the 19 century. Initials are hand painted on the top 1865 and hand engraved und...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Birch, Pine
Antique Victorian Quality Burr Walnut Brass Bound Writing Box
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique Victorian quality burr walnut brass bound writing box having a quality burr walnut box with original brass bounds opening to reveal a writing surface, pair of original ink bo...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Late 19th Century French Ruby to Clear Cut Crystal Bronze-Mounted Box
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Beautiful ruby to clear cut crystal with bronze mounts, France, late 19th century.
Measures:
Height 6.50 in (16.5 cm)
Width 4.50 in (11.5 cm)
Depth 4.50...
Category
French Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal
19th Century Anglo-Indian Sadeli Inlaid Work Box Traveling Writing Desk
Located in Stamford, CT
A stunning camel bone, ebony and metal inlaid sadeli work box with portable writing desk, Bombay, circa 1850.
The sandalwood body of faceted rec...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Inlaid Table Cabinet
Located in Bradenton, FL
Inlaid table cabinet with six compartments and two handles. This is a beautifully decorated crafted box reflecting the craftsmanship and cultural influences of Goa during the colonia...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Rare Majolica Box with Oysters and Snail Choisy Le Roi, circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
Rare Majolica box with oysters and snail signed Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy Le Roi, circa 1880.
Measures: Height / 8", length / 15" on 6.5".
Category
French Aesthetic Movement Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
19th Century Italian Grand Tour Steel Lidded Sarcophagus Box
Located in Stamford, CT
Rare 19th century Italian Grand Tour steel sarcophagus form box, circa 1880. Nice form, handsome desk-top accessory, great addition to any box collection. It is unusual to find this ...
Category
Italian Grand Tour Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Steel
Antique English Victorian Walnut Burl Inlaid Campaign Jewelry Chest Vanity Box 1
Located in Dayton, OH
A superb antique 19th century English Victorian burled walnut travel campaign vanity box featuring inlaid brass fruit basket motif with mother of pe...
Category
Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Late 19th Century English Game Box
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Lovely antique game box, made of mahogany.
The box contains several games, with many bits and pieces. Not all complete.
It is obviously that there h...
Category
British Belle Époque Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th century Folk Art Hand-painted Scandinavian Immigrants Box
Located in Leesburg, VA
Anonymous
Probably Sweden; early 19th century
Polychrome wood (probably pine); iron
Approximate size: 11 (h) x 18.5 (w) x 10 (d) in.
A handsome dome lidded Scandinavian immigrants’...
Category
Swedish Rustic Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Regency Anglo Indian Quill Work Vizagapatam Sandalwood Sewing Box
Located in Huntington, NY
This fine Regency period quill work, bone, ivory & sandalwood sewing box
with intact interior w sewing implements.
Category
Indian Regency Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Ivory, Sandalwood
Antique Swiss 8 Air Gonçalo Alves Musical Box 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a lovely antique Swiss 8 airs Gonçalo Alves cylinder music box, manufactured by Qualite Excelsior Sondrite Extra Puissant Harmonie, circa 1870 in date.
The Goncalo Alves case is inlaid and crossbanded with boxwood inlay and superb marquetry decoration of musical instruments. It is raised on a plinth base and is fitted with brass carrying handles.
The music box features a 28cm cylinder playing eight tunes with arrow and adjustable lyre damper, with handwritten "Tremolo a Zither" play sheet and makers plate for Qualite Excelsior Sondrite Extra Puissant Harmonie.
Condition:
In excellent working condition, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 28 cm x Width 66 cm x Depth 22 cm
Dimensions in inches:
Height 11 inches x Width 2 foot, 2 inches x Depth 9 inches
Music box
(also musical box) is a 19th/20th century automatic musical instrument that produces sounds by the use of a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc so as to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb. They were developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and called carillons à musique...
Category
Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century Trompe L'oeil Country House Painted Oak Box
Located in Middleburg, VA
19th Century Trompe L'oeil Country House Painted Oak Box
This adorable box is an original 19th century box that was recently painted in the 21st century by an English artist in the ...
Category
English Country Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak, Paint
Antique Sevres Gilt & Royal Blue Genre Scene Porcelain Dresser Box C1880
Located in Big Flats, NY
Large Antique Sevres Gilt & Royal Blue Scenic Porcelain Dresser Box with Genre Scene, Signed C1880.
Measures - 5"H x 10.25"W x 7"D.
This large antique Sevres porcelain dresser ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Early 19th Century French Gold Box with Enamel and Miniature Portrait
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING A STUNNING Early 19C French Gold Box with Enamel and Miniature Portrait.
Box made with brass but has been plated with 18ct Gold with beau...
Category
French Grand Tour Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Late 19th Century Oak with Copper Mounts Storage Chest
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful decorative storage chest. The chest is made of solid oak. At the front, top and both sides a copper diamond pattern with flower motifs. On both side brass handles. Made i...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Copper
Late 19th Century Decorative Box - Marquetry Wood - Cubics
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful antique decorative box, inlaid with different types of wood.
This type of marquetry work is also called 'Oeben Cubes', named after the famous ebenist Jean Oeben (1721-176...
Category
French Belle Époque Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Fruitwood, Walnut, Burl
Antique Charles X French Cut Glass Casket
By Baccarat
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique French cut glass casket.
With a pressed and cut glass body and cover with a gilt bronze mount.
Together with an associated key (for a...
Category
French Charles X Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Empire Dore Bronze Enamel Casket
By Baccarat
Located in Canterbury, GB
Antique Crystal Casket
Exquisite Antique French Empire Crystal Casket
The thick heavy finest quality crystal encased in beautiful Dore Bronze (Ormolu ) mounts The lid decorated with...
Category
French Belle Époque Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Antique Campaign Correspondence Box, Anglo Indian, Colonial, Writing, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique campaign correspondence box. An Anglo-Indian, teak and bone inlaid colonial writing case with fitted interior, dating to the late...
Category
British Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Teak
English Birdseye Maple Sewing Box
Located in Huntington, NY
Regency birdseye maple sewing box with lions heads handles on each side & lions hairy paw feet with a key.
Category
English Regency Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Wooden Box, Casket, Gründerzeit / Wilhelminian, circa 1890, Austria
Located in Wien, AT
Very nice early wooden box, made in Austria, Central Europe. The box was made in the Gründerzeit period, how we call it in Europe, in this case around 1890.
There are some interest...
Category
Austrian Belle Époque Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut, Cherry
Early 20th Century Vintage Artists Paint Box and Pallet, Denmark
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Danish Vintage Artists Paint Box and Pallet, Early 20th Century
Well loved Danish artists traveling wooden box with everything needed to paint on location. This charming box, acqui...
Category
Danish Folk Art Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Chinese Lacquered Happiness Box with Birds & Blossoms, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This finely lacquered box was once presented as a gift, filled with popular snacks like roasted melon seeds, dried fruit, and cinnamon-toasted soy beans. Dated to the late 19th centu...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer
French Napoleon III Blue Opaline Glass Box with Bronze Mounts, Circa 1860
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
French Napoleon III Blue Opaline Glass Box with Bronze Mounts, Circa 1860
A luminous French blue opaline glass box from the Napoleon III period, circa 1860, beautifully proportioned...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
French Sèvres 19th Century Porcelain Egg with Putto and Garland of Pink Roses
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Sèvres Manufacture porcelain egg from the 19th century, with putto and floral hand painted décor. Born in France during the 19th century, this exquisite decorative egg featu...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Georgian Amboyna Sewing Box
By William Dobson
Located in Northampton, GB
Veneered in Amboyna Wood
From our Sewing Box collection, we are pleased to offer this Amboyna Sewing Box. The Sewing Box of rectangular shape veneered in Amboyna with a circular mo...
Category
English William IV Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Shell, Amboyna
Antique Victorian Coromandel and Mother of Pearl Writing Slope by Richard Wathew
By Richard Wathew
Located in Northampton, GB
Mother of Pearl Inlay
From our Writing Box collection, we are delighted to offer this Victorian Coromandel and Mother of Pearl Writing Slope by Richard Wathew. The Writing Box of sl...
Category
English Early Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Shell, Wood
Late 19th Century Engraved Chinese Brass Box with Carved Nephrite White Jade Lid
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Antique carved nephrite white jade from a ruyi, mounted to the hinged lid of a conforming brass box. The inside of the lid and outer surfaces are engraved with propitious symbols.
C...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Jade, Brass
Late 19th Century Large Walnut Carved Desk Letter/Stationery Rack
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A large antique letter rack, made of carved wood. The wickerwork is also made of carved wood. With three compartments. Made in France around 1890-1...
Category
French Regency Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Golden Singing bird box by Charles Bruguier with enameled lid
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Extremely Rare Gold Singing Bird Box by Charles Bruguier – Geneva, ca. 1840
A stunning and very rare gold fusee singing bird box by the renowned Swiss master Charles Bruguier, made ...
Category
Swiss Late Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Enamel, Other, Gold
Exceptional Anglo-Indian Stag Horn Veneered Sewing / Work Box From Vizagapatam
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
An unusually large stag horn veneered sandal wood sewing box from Vizagapatam, India. This large, fitted box in the Regency taste has tapered sides and a two-tiered sloped lid, all c...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Antler, Sandalwood
Lovely antique Victorian mahogany trinket box
Located in Ipswich, GB
Lovely antique Victorian mahogany trinket box, having a lift up lid opening to reveal a storage compartment lined with a green felt interior.
D....
Category
Early Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
