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Period: 20th Century
Gucci Brown Leather Handbag Top Handles Bag Vintage, Late 20th Century
Located in Labrit, Landes
Gucci brown leather handbag top handles bag vintage, late 20th century Embossed inside 'Made in Italy by Gucci' Smooth brown leather Rose gold metal hardware Original Gucci tag i...
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Italian 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Leather

Art Nouveau Majolica Barbotine Box Jar Pheasant on Basket by Sarreguemines
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
A hand-painted majolica lidded jar / box or tureen in the shape of a pheasant hen sitting on a basket, made by Sarreguemines around 1900. This beau...
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French Art Nouveau Antique 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Ceramic, Majolica

Art Deco Bronze Box with Flowers in Relief, Denmark, 1930s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
- Small yet heavy Art Deco bronze box with flowers in relief. - Clean and strict design. With a touch of femininity. - Rich and original patina. - It was manufactured in Denmark d...
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Danish Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bronze

Art Deco Amber Glass Trinket Decorative Vanity Box, vintage Austria 1930s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A really beautiful colored Art Deco Trinket Jewelry box or catchall. In very good condition with signs of use. A real collectors item for your Art Deco setting. Nice addition also to...
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Austrian Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Art Glass

Asian Silver Metal Hand Carved Peacock Sitar Veena Form Box 1950
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Asian Silver Metal Hand-Carved Sitar Veena Box. Elevate your decor with this stunning vintage box, featuring intricate hand-carved designs of a sitar and peacock. The ornate ...
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Indian Anglo Raj 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal, Silver

Chinese Phoenix Bird and Dragon Box
Located in New York, NY
A black and off-white Chinese phoenix bird and dragon decorative plastic box with lid, circa 20th century, China. Box measures: 4.25" D x 8.25" ...
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Chinese 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Plastic

Bronze and Porcelain Jewelry Box, Porcelain Plaques Painted by Johner
By Johner
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Bronze and porcelain jewelry box. Porcelain plaques painted by Johner. Neoclassical style. Vienna, circa 1900.
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Austrian Neoclassical 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bronze

Pair of Vintage British Colonial Style Faux Zebra Boxes on Stands
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Standout pair of mid century boxes on stands having hand decorated faux vellum interiors, set on brass stands with custom acid washed finishes. Signed Hart Associates on a brass label.
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American Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Midcentury Decorative Box in Lucite and Rattan Christian Dior Style, Italy 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury amazing little rectangular decorative box in lucite, rattan and brass in the style of Christian Dior Home. Made in Italy in the 1970s. Perfect desk object or gift idea.
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal, Brass

Persian brass jewelry box - Moorish neo-Mamluk style - 1920's Syria
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Very pretty 1920s Persian brass jewelry box in neo-Mamluk Moorish style. This lovely box is an antique Mamluke Damascene style Islamic brass jewelry box from the Middle East, circa 1...
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Syrian Art Deco 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Art Deco Brass Box around 1920s
Located in Wien, AT
Art Deco brass box around 1920s Polished and stove enamelled Wood inside.
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Austrian Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Vintage Keepsake Box, Portuguese, Satinwood, Case, Cricket Interest, Mid Century
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage keepsake box. A Portuguese, rosewood and satinwood case with cricket interest, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1945. Fas...
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Portuguese Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood

Antique Chinoiserie Box
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinoiserie decorated fruit box. Beautiful decorated Chinoiserie box used to serve fruits and specail treats. Hand gilt painting over red lacquer. Strong patina of wear so...
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Chinese Qing Antique 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood

Vintage Handmade Natural Malachite Stone Lidded Stash Trinket Box Italy
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful decorative handcrafted lidded natural green malachite stone stash/trinket box. The box has a wonderful form and design. Malachite stone has great color and natural patterns...
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20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Malachite

French Cut Crystal Box with Diamond Cut Pattern
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
French Cut Crystal Box with Diamond Cut Pattern and brass mounts. Faceted etched design accentuates the beautiful design of this box. In very good vintage condition.
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French 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Crystal, Brass

Mid-Century German Space Age Newspaper Letter Box, 1960s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century German Space Age Newspaper Letter Box, 1960s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1960 to 1969 Additional information: Materials: Metal, Plastic Color: Black Styles: Mid-C...
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German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal

Bill Long Wood Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautifully crafted box, signature below.
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American Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Rosewood

Octagonal Jewelry Music Box, Made in Italy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Elegant octagonal wooden music box in thuya wood. Thuya tree is famous for rich gold and brown shades of its grain and unique exotic fragrance, simila...
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Italian Moorish Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Fruitwood

Vintage White Marble Jewelry Trinket with Bird Intarsia
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A beautifully hand-crafted trinket or jewelry box in white marble. Featuring an organically crafted oval shape and the lid is decorated with intarsia of a bird. Unknown European make...
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European Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Marble

Michael Aram Tooled Silver Metal, Enamel Two Part Box With Brass Flower Top
Located in North Miami, FL
This lovely small round 2 part box is an early piece of the designs of MIchael Aram's work from the early 90's. It is a tooled design silver metal on the top of the box with a black...
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Indian Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal, Brass, Enamel

Collection of Russian Papier Mache Lacquered Hand Painted Boxes
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Collection of Russian Papier Mache Lacquered Hand Painted Boxes All of them are signed in Russian Largest one is 8" x 4.88" x 2.25"
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Russian 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Softwood, Paper

Table Box miniature fire-enameled Aleksej Nikolaevic Romanov Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with inward corners in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche and a fine round miniature in the centre, diameter cm. 4....
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Italian Empire Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Elegant Malachite Box from the 50s, 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Malachite Box Elegant malachite box from the 50s. It is in perfect condition. Measurements: 21x11x8 cm.
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Italian Art Deco 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Malachite

Set of Four Scandinavian Ceramic Goose Money Banks, Höganäs Keramik Sweden 1990s
Located in Bochum, NRW
Set of Four Scandinavian ceramic goose money banks, Höganäs Keramik Sweden 1990s. Each marked under the bottom with maker's marks, and some dated. One ke...
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Swedish Scandinavian Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Ceramic

Black Box with Mallard Duck Mosaic
Located in New York, NY
A black resin rectangular box with mosaic inlaid mallard duck bird on pond with cattail plant flower; all inlaying was done by hand with natural materials...
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American Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Moroccan Antique Berber Case Flask Hand-carved
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Hand made early 20th century Moroccan antique Berber case flask, carved wood covered with brass and silvered metal filigree, delicately hand-hammered metal with animals decor for pow...
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Moroccan Moorish Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass, Tin

Gucci Vintage Leather Box Tom Ford, 1990s
Located in Munich, DE
Gucci vintage black leather jewellery box with aluminium brushed frame and stitched leather rims designed by Tom Ford. Signed with Gucci. Ver...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Aluminum

Jack Ink Art Glass Box, 1980s
Located in Delft, NL
Jack Ink Art glass box, 1980s A rectangular Art Glass box, with the main color of blue and consisting of 2 parts with brass. Light makes the art iridescent...
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European 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Art Glass

Porcelain Peint a la Main Vintage Grand Piano Trinket Box by Limoges
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful porcelain peint a la main (hand painted) vintage grand piano trinket box by Limoges, circa 1980s. This unusual piece is in very good vintage condition and measures 1.75"W x...
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French 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Porcelain

Italian Painted and Lacquered Playing Card Box, circa 1900
Located in Stamford, CT
Rare and very charming Italian hand crafted playing card case painted in Venetian red with miniature cards lacquered on in the 'lacca povera' style, similar to decoupage. The cards d...
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Italian Belle Époque 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood

Pink Peach Mirrored Glass Decorative Box, France 1940s
Located in Atlanta, GA
This lovely mirrored glass decorative box was crafted in the 1940s. The square design boasts pink peach-colored glass with a mirror textured effect and deep geometric bevelling all a...
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French Hollywood Regency Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Glass, Mirror

Midcentury Box in Wood, Brass and Steel Tommaso Barbi Style, Italy 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury amazing large rectangular box in wood, brass and steel in the style of Tommaso Barbi. Made in Italy in the 1970s.
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal, Brass, Steel

Lidded Pewter Box by Edvin Ollers, Sweden, 1930s. Svenskt Tenn. Art Deco.
Located in Malmö, SE
A beautiful tea caddy in pewter, with amazing patina. Designed by Edvin Ollers and made by Schreuder & Olsson in Stockholm, Sweden, 1937. Great condition, with only a few light scr...
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Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal, Pewter

French Neoclassical Lidded Pill, Trinket or Small Jewelry Box
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful handcrafted lidded pill, trinket, or small jewelry box. Intricately designed brass bottom, amber and quartz top. Makes a lovely gif...
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French 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Quartz, Brass

A Russian hand painted papier mâché box decorated with intricate scenes C1920
Located in Central England, GB
This top quality Russian black lacquered papier mâché box has an extremely fine hand painted central panel to its lid with a medieval scene set amongst a landscape with a castle and ...
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Other 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Lacquer, Paper

English Modern Sterling Silver Box with Saudi Arabia Association
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth II sterling silver box. Made by Peter Nicholas & Co Ltd in London in 1989. Rectangular with corner bracket supports and hinged open scroll end handles. Cover hinged and fla...
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British Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Sterling Silver

20th Century Handmade Silver Vase by Asian Artisans, Vintage
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Gorgeous vintage handmade silver Vase. Sorry we don't know anything about it, but its beautiful. It is marked with a sign of the silversmith. I am unsure of the age of this object an...
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Central Asian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

Moroccan Chest or Jewelry Box in Cameal Bone and Brass Inlaid
Located in Plainview, NY
Bring a sense of majesty into your living space with this magnificent Moroccan white bone chest handcrafted from beach wood and inlaid with additional red stones. Boasting a sumptuou...
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Moroccan Moorish Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Rectangular Mid-Century Chrome Thick Lucite Box by Albrizzi
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Thick Lucite and Chromed Jewelry Box by Alessandro Albrizzi, MCM A vintage lucite lidded box, the top being clear, the bottom being chromed. The box was designed by Alessandro Albriz...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Chrome

Anglo Raj Hand-Carved Decorative Jewelry Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Hand-carved Anglo Raj early 20th century carved wood box richly decorated overall with arabesques and floral carving. Hinged lid shallow relief carving with interior lined with red r...
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Indian Anglo Raj 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Sandalwood

Fred Zimbalist Thorens Silver Plated Music Box
By Fred Zimbalist
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Fred Zimbalist Thorens silver music box shaped as an old phonograph with trumpet horn. All the silver panels that make the box and the hor...
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American Anglo-Indian 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver Plate

Jean-Michel Frank 'Straw Marquetry Box'
Located in Sharon, CT
Geometric angular design. Cork interior. Three bronze four sided pyramids attached. Unsigned and 'attributed to'. Provenance: Liz O'Brien NYC c.2000.
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French Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Straw

Navajo Sterling Silver & Turquoise Hand Made Pill Boxes, Set of Three, 1930s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A set of three hand made sterling silver pill cases or trinket boxes, Navajo, Native American – circa 1930s. The boxes are decorated with ...
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American Navajo Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Sterling Silver

French Antique Etched and Faceted Crystal Lidded Boxes with Bronze Ormolu, Pair
Located in Doylestown, PA
Pair of French antique etched and faceted cut crystal lidded boxes with ormolu mounts, c. early 20th century. Gorgeous gilt bronze mounted boxes with intricately etched crystal of f...
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French Empire 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Crystal, Bronze, Ormolu

Pretty Antique European Classical Silver Keepsake Box
Located in New York, NY
Pretty European Classical 800 silver keepsake box, ca 1940. Rectangular. Cover flat and hinged with tapering tab. Sides fluted and engraved with fl...
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European Edwardian 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

Petite Antique Anglo Indian Bone and Tortoise Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Charming petite antique Anglo Indian lidded box handcrafted in indigenous hardwoods clad in tortoise shell and decorated with elaborate lacy bone designs, featuring an etched and pai...
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Indian Anglo-Indian 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Tortoise Shell

1960s Beautiful Brown Alabaster Box, Handmade, Made in Italy
Located in Milano, IT
1960s Beautiful alabaster brown box handmade carved. Made in Italy. Not easy to find it in these color. This vintage box is amazing and in excellent condition. Dimension: 3,14" x 3...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Alabaster

Fornasetti "Trofeo Selvaggina" Enameled Box, ca. 1950's
Located in New York, NY
This small painted wooden box is an iconic piece by the renowned Italian artist and designer Piero Fornasetti. Created in the 1950s, it reflects Fornasetti's unique style, blending t...
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Italian 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal

Vintage Rosewood and Brass Trinket Jewelry Box, 1960s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A beautifully crafted rosewood box with brass sides and pin-inlays to its star-perforated lid. Despite its Arabic inspired lid it was in fact made in Scandinavia during the 1960s. A ...
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Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Large French Cut Crystal Rectangular Table Box, Attributed to Baccarat
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Large French Cut Crystal Rectangular Table Box, Attributed to Baccarat  France, 1900s A magnificent large French-cut crystal rectangular table box, attributed to Baccarat, France, c...
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French Neoclassical 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Crystal, Brass

Large Oak Sewing Box, 1950s, Holland
Located in Den Haag, NL
Large Solid Oak wood sewing box ,on wheels . opened with two hinged doors on the top, while the accordion style (with layered shelves that used external hinges to store more stuff in...
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Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Oak

Emanuel josef Margold, a secessionist box for the Bahlsen cookie factory c. 1915
Located in London, Fitzrovia
A rare rectangular shaped box with a hinge cover; tinplate, gilt and with beautiful colourful abstract floral motifs. The bottom is embossed with ‘H. Bahlsens Keks-Fabrik Hannover Königl-Preuss-Staatsmedaille Weltausstellungen - 1904 1910 Grosser Preis 1911 1913 Baltische Ausstellung Malmö 1914 Die Königl. Medaille’ Bahlsen's new designs for ornamental giftware packaging were shown at the exhibition held by the Deutsche Werkbund...
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German Vienna Secession 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Tin

Hallmarked Silver Plated Keepsake Box, Sheffield, Uk, Circa 1900
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Offered is a stunning Sheffield silver keepsake box dating to 1900, with associated hallmark. This small box includes a clean interior and rounded corners. The box is free of names or initials, but would have been used to house keepsakes such as jewelry or cufflinks. A well maintained, elegant piece, this antique silver box is an excellent addition to any silver collection. Trinket or keepsake boxes have taken on many forms since their first conception in ancient times. However their purpose remains the same; to store jewelry and other items precious to the owner. Originally, these boxes were used specifically for jewelry. These were in common use as early as 5000 BC in Ancient Egypt, when the majority of Egyptians, both male and female, wore jewelry. Boxes were used to keep these gemstone encrusted items safe. In Ancient Rome, jewelry was a status symbol. Rings and brooches were utilized to represent ones status in society. Again, boxes were needed for security and storage purposes. Finding early examples of these are quite rare. Victorian and Edwardian examples of trinket boxes are far more common. This is because owning jewellery was a luxury until the Victorian era- let alone possessing so much a box was needed to store it all. Fine jewelry and other items became available to the masses after the industrial revolution due to the reduction in production costs. This led to a demand for trinket boxes, which were much smaller than jewelry boxes and therefore better suited to the needs of the middle class who did not yet possess an abundance of jewelry. In Victorian households, collectables and other items of interested were also stashed inside these boxes. This is why they are known as trinket or keepsake boxes, rather than just jewelry boxes, although of course jewelry was also stored in them. Trinket boxes were produced in large numbers around this time. Many were lined with colored plush or velvet or rich wood. More elaborate designs had interior divisions and trays for rings and other pieces of jewellery. It was also common to see trinket boxes so small that they could only contain one item, such as a single ring. Ornate exteriors were created to reflect the value of the trinket boxes contents. The Edwardian era saw the introduction of new styles of trinket box. These included small circular or oblong boxes...
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British Art Deco Antique 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

Alessandro Albrizzi Cube Box in Purple Lucite and Gold Metal, Italy, 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
This auction is for a purple cube Lucite box with gold color metal in the centre by Italian Designer Alessandro Albrizzi. Overall the piece is beautiful wi...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal, Steel

French Majolica Money or Coin Bank Dog Circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica Money or Coin Bank Dog Circa 1900.
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French Country Antique 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Ceramic

La Sirène au Bateau (The mermaid with the boat) by Line Vautrin
Located in Uccle, BE
La Sirène au Bateau (The mermaid with the boat) by Line Vautrin, silvered bronze box. Silvered bronze box whose lid is decorated with a Mermaid carrying a boat at arm’s length. This ...
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French Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bronze

Swedish grace Bonbonniere in pewter by Sylvia Stave, CG Hallberg 1933
Located in Hägersten, SE
Rare bonbonniere designed by Sylvia Stave. produced in Stockholm, sweden by C. G. Hallberg in 1933. Made from pewter with the stylistic and characteristic striped pattern favored by ...
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Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Pewter

Box by Fontana Arte, Wood and Glass, 1940s
Located in Brussels, BE
Box by Fontana Arte, Wood and Glass, 1940s
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Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Glass, Wood

Antique Hand-Carved Chestnut Box in Asian Bamboo Style Inlaid with Soapstone
Located in Lisse, NL
Exclusive & fine quality hand-crafted Chinoiserie box. The diversity in techniques and materials used by craftsman around the world and over the last centuries never seizes to a...
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European Chinoiserie 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Soapstone

Pair Red Crocodile Nesting Boxes
Located in New York, NY
Pair red crocodile nesting boxes. Set of two vintage one of a kind rich carmine red crocodile leather handmade jewelry boxes nesting one inside the other w...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Crocodile

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