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19th Century Continental Walnut and Kingwood Case Cylinder Music Box, #3130
Located in Germantown, MD
This large impressive cabinet featuring a crossbanded walnut and Kingwood and inlaid with satinwood stringing line alternating with Ebony wood inlays. Clean and distilling angelic m...
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Swiss American Empire Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut, Kingwood, Satinwood, Ebony
Mid 19th century Swedish folk art painted box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Mid 19th century Swedish folk art painted box circa 1865.
Good quality Swedish pine metal bound box. Decorated with original ragwork paint and blue painted strap work. Hand painte...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Steel
19th Century English Victorian Campaign Style Travel Desk Writing Box
Located in Forney, TX
A antique Victorian era English campaign style brass bound mahogany portable lap desk / writing slope with nicely aged patina. circa 1850
Commonly used by military officers in the f...
Category
English Campaign Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box with Floral Mosaic c1860
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Tunbridge ware sewing box with floral mosaic
Date : c1860
Period : Victoria
Origin : Probably Tunbridge Wells
Decoration : Central ...
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British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Traditional Green Dresser Boxes - Set of 4
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Lacquer Boxes with game pieces. Beautiful little traditional pieces! Everyone loves Chinoiserie
Category
British Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box with Swing Handle c1850
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Tunbridge ware sewing box with swing handle c1850
Date : c1850
Period : Victoria
Origin : Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Decoration : Two compar...
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British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Enamel Coffer with Mythological Scenes Signed Klein in Paris, 19th Century
By A. Klein
Located in Paris, FR
Small, rectangular, enamel coffer decorated with mythological scenes that are framed with spiraling lines of ormolu and attached with flowers at the corners. The Rape of Proserpina by the god Pluto adorns the lid. The front and back of the box are decorated with images of Diana being woken by her nymphs and the Rape of Europa. The sides have images of Mercury educating Cupid and a bath scene...
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French Louis XVI Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu, Bronze
Travelling Tunbridge Ware Writing Slope Edmund Nye c1860
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Travelling Tunbridge ware writing slope Edmund Nye c1860
Date : c1860
Period : Victoria
Origin : Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Decoration : Central floral mosaic within keyline...
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British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Tunbridge Ware Box with Image of Tonbridge Castle c1840
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Tunbridge ware box with image of Tonbridge Castle
Date : c1840
Period : Victoria
Origin : Tonbridge or Brighton – see below.
Decoration : Central mosaic of Tonbridge ca...
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British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Tunbridge Ware Writing Slope with Cubework c1840
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Tunbridge ware writing slope with cubework
Date : c1840
Period : Victoria
Origin : Probably Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Decoration : Central perspective cubework with van dyk...
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British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Antique English Burr Walnut & Hand Painted Porcelain Stationery Box, circa 1850
Located in Bath, GB
A quite wonderful and romantic stationery box, ready to grace the finest of desk-tops.
Made from burr walnut the wedge shaped box is smothered in fine quality polished brass mount...
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English Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$3,265 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Black Lacquer and Brass Trinket Decorative Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
19th Century Napoleon III period black lacquer jewelry or trinket box features an intricate lid. Intricately decorated lid highlights this beautiful trinket box, circa 1860's. The pe...
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French Napoleon III Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$240 Sale Price
51% Off
Antique Brass-Bound Rosewood Writing Slope, c.1850
Located in Worcester, GB
Antique Brass-Bound Rosewood Writing Slope, c.1850
Nice quality mid-19th century English brass-bound writing slope in richly figured rosewood, dating to around 1850.
The rectangula...
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British Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box with Swing Handle Wise Jr c1865
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Tunbridge ware sewing box with swing handle by George Wise Jr
Date : c1865
Period : Victoria
Origin : Tonbridge, Kent
Decoration : Two sloped compartments with stylised...
Category
British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Very Rare Tunbridge Ware Box with Dover Church and Pharos
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Tunbridge ware box with image of Dover Church and Pharos
Date : c1860
Period : Victoria
Origin : Probably Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Decoration : Central mosaic of Dover Chu...
Category
British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Tunbridge Ware Glove Box c1840
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Tunbridge ware glove box
Date : c1840
Period : Victoria
Origin : Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Decoration : Three geometric stickware designs to cover with keyline border. Internal...
Category
British Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Tunbridge Ware Handkerchief Box George Wise Jnr c1860
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Tunbridge ware handkerchief box by George Wise c1860
Date : c1860
Period : Victoria
Origin : Tonbridge, Kent ( then Tunbridge)
Decoration : ...
Category
English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Victorian Burl Walnut Gentlemans Dressing Box
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular hinged top opening to a box fitted with sterling capped jars and tools. One lid is damaged.
Category
English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Biedermeier Box, Walnut Veneer on Maple, Austria, circa 1840
Located in Regensburg, DE
Beautiful, unadorned Biedermeier casket box in amazing walnut veneer from Austria, circa 1840.
Very nicely grained walnut veneer on solid maple wood. In the lid is a mirror glass inl...
Category
Austrian Biedermeier Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Iron
$646 Sale Price
20% Off
Scandinavian hand painted 19th century pine strong box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Scandinavian hand painted 19th century pine strong box circa 1840.
Good example of traditional rustic Swedish woodwork. Painted in a russet red paint with hand painted cream drags....
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
A Rare Pair of Luxury Chinoiserie Tea Cannister Shop Fittings
Located in Greenwich, CT
A rare pair of large-scale tea cannisters with wooden lids over rounded tin bodies each elaborately decorated with bucolic scenes of a pair of figures in Chinese dress in a garden, w...
Category
English Chinoiserie Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tin
Mid 19th century rustic Swedish pine storage box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Mid 19th century rustic Swedish pine storage container circa 1860.
Very nice rare item to find intact. Made from pine with original bold blue paint, 1 original metal support hoop t...
Category
Swedish Rustic Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine, Paint
Antique Genuine Swedish Folk Art Box Made by Hand in Pine with Authentic Patina
Located in Kramfors, SE
Swedish folk art box made by hand in solid pine. This box is made in northern Sweden during the mid 1800s, around 1850, and is in original condition with the first layer of paint. Th...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
19th Century Large Store Tea Tin Hand Painted Parnall & Sons Bristol, England
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous and large store tea tin by Parnall & Sons who were the people to see for outfitting your store and much more as the company grew from 1830. Hand painted showing a girl servi...
Category
British Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
$1,036 Sale Price
30% Off
19th Century Spanish Colonial Leather Dome Trunk with Studded Decoration
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A rare and character-filled Spanish Colonial dome-top trunk, late 19th century, clad in original hair-on cowhide with geometric patterns formed from decorative metal studs. The rich,...
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Spanish Spanish Colonial Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
1850s French Bronze Portrait Box
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1850s French bronze portrait box. Portrait on paper, signed Leroy
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Unusual Antique Victorian Quality Rosewood Writing Box
Located in Suffolk, GB
Unusual antique Victorian quality rosewood writing box having a quality rosewood rectangular shaped top with a shaped gallery above two drawers opening to reveal a fitted compartment for sewing items...
Category
English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
$1,507 Sale Price
20% Off
Early 19Thc Original Blue Painted Mini -Dome Top Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19Thc Original Blue painted table top dome top document box.The hardware is original and square nail construction.The condition is good with minor scratches.
Category
American Adirondack Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Paint
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Engraved Vinaigrette Birmingham Edward Smith 1839
By Edward Smith
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique engraved sterling silver vinaigrette, Edward Smith, Birmingham, 1839.
The vinaigrette is finely engine turned to the hinged top and the undersaide, the lid is monogram...
Category
English Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Outstanding quality antique Victorian burr walnut stationary box
Located in Ipswich, GB
Outstanding quality antique Victorian burr walnut stationery box, having a fine quality burr walnut box with a sloping shaped lid opening to reveal fitted interior with ten sections ...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Victorian Cranberry Glass Powder Brush Vanity Make-Up Glass Lid Box With Scallop
Located in Worcester Park, GB
This is an antique lidded dish made of cranberry glass. It is a type of decorative glassware known for its distinctive pink or red color, which is created by adding gold chloride to ...
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English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Blown Glass
Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Engraved Vinaigrette Birmingham Gervase Wheeler
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique sterling silver-gilt early 19th century Vinaigrette, Birmingham, by Gervase Wheeler, 1839.
This beautiful vinaigrette having f...
Category
English Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique English Mother of Pearl & Rosewood Writing Box Hausburg
By F.L. Hausburg
Located in Northampton, GB
Firmly Attributed to Hausburg
From our Writing Box collection, we are pleased to offer this Antique Victorian Writing Box attributed to ...
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English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pewter
19thc Oval Oversized Pantry Box.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19thc Oval oversized pantry box.
Original paint. Large size wooden pantry found in New England. Spacious old and primitive.
Category
American Adirondack Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Box Cinnabar Lacquered Red and Black, 19th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Beautiful little box lacquered with red and black Cinnabar forming a peony decoration. Cinnabar lacquer is an Asian technique that comes from cutting an...
Category
Chinese Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$617 Sale Price
20% Off
19Thc Original Blue/Grey Large Pantry Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19Thc Original blue painted pantry box in very good condition.This blue /grey painted pantry box.Great size.
Category
American Adirondack Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
$1,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Magnificent and Rare Early Silver Plated Drum Biscuit Box on Stand, 1844
Located in Bath, GB
I would imagine this was a regimental presentation gift having had this top quality stand custom made in heavy cast silver plate by the finest of silversmith's Elkington and Co. The ...
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English Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
$1,905 Sale Price
20% Off
Wooden carved box in the shape of a rattan box with a string. Mid-19th Century
Located in Knivsta, SE
Very charming Wooden carved box in the shape of a rattan box with a knotted string. Europe, Mid-19th Century. Working lock with key.
Wear consistent with age and use
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European Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Birch
English leather hat box for a man’s wide brim top hat, 1830-40
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Distressed leather hat box for a man’s wide brim top hat. The lid is hinged and has a metal closure. The handle and strap stays are molded metal. The interior retains its original cream and green patterned paper lining.
England, circa 1830-40.
Condition: Leather is stained and heavily distressed. Interior paper lining is in good original condition.
Materials: Leather, Paper, Brass
Dimensions: 15” W x 13-1/2” D x 10-3/4” H
SKU: 8505
Tear sheets are available on request.
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English Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
English Victorian "Dome Top" Figured Burl Yew Wood Letter Box Circa 1865
Located in Incline Village, NV
Lovely British made Victorian (circa 1865) hard to find yew wood "dome top" compartmentalized writing box;. Tea caddies of this style are more prevalent, so writing boxes are especia...
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English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Yew
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Original Swedish Blue Pine Box
Located in Kramfors, SE
Northern Swedish blue pine box from Hälsingland in northern Sweden. The box is from the 19th century and likely from the village Norrala. The box was likely a friargåva, a gift given...
Category
Swedish Country Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Antique Country House Parlour Game Case, English, Oak, Organiser Box, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique country house parlour game case. An English, oak organiser box, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850.
Fascinating proportion to this pleasingly craft...
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British Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak
Mid-19th Century Gutta Percha Box with Photo's & Contemporary Notes on Genealogy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid-19th century Gutta Percha Box with photo's and contemporary notes on Genealogy
Fantastic mid-19th century gutta percha box with standing figures and a horse.
Gutta Percha b...
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American Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Other
French Mid-19th Century Lacquered Oak Reliquary Box
Located in Milano, MI
French 19th century lacquered rectangular shaped reliquary box, realized in oak, decorated with a dark brown/grey lacquering and a white scrolling and pa...
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French Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak
George Reevers, Dutch .934 Silver Biscuit Box, Rope Borders, Holland, C.1838
Located in Chatham, ON
GEORGE REEVERS (Maker - Silversmith) - Extraordinary and rare Dutch fine silver round biscuit box - 934/1000 silver - finest quality and timeless design (nearly 200 years old) - classic rope twist borders (two to the top and one to the base) - indent to the edge of the hinged lid for easy opening and grip - original green wool felt base liner (not photographed...
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Dutch Neoclassical Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$2,730 Sale Price
30% Off
19th Century French Cast Iron Shell-Form Coal Bucket
Located in Dallas, TX
This antique coal scuttle was created in France, circa 1870. Built of cast iron, and shaped as a shell with foliage repousse decor, the patinated bucket stands on escargot feet over ...
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English Napoleon III Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
Rare box-type object with antique wooden peacock figure XIX
Located in Cantù, IT
Rare box-type object with antique wooden peacock figure XIX
Category
Italian Other Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Antique Swedish Hand-Made Folk Art Pine Flour Box
Located in Kramfors, SE
Antique hand-made flour box from Sweden made in folk art during the second half of the 19th century, around 1860 to 1870. These boxes were either hung on the...
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Swedish Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Fine Antique English Gilded Bronze Mounted Coromandel Lap Desk
Located in Bath, GB
A superb quality Victorian writing box / slope in exotic and dramatic Coromandel wood mounted with the most exquisite gilded bronze mounts, all intricately engraved with top-notch screwed mounting.
The box comes complete with the original working Bramah key, always a sign of quality. The bottom section unfolds to reveal the leather covered writing surface with gold embossed tooling. The top opens to reveal a fitted interior with lidded compartments, a sloped compartment for pen nibs, an inkwell compartment complete with brass topped inkwell...
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British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
$2,171 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Italian Handmade Tuscan Siena Yellow Food Storage Box for Beans
Located in Milano, MI
An Italian 19th century lidded beechwood box, an antique food storage container suitable for dried legumes, as per the Italian inscription FAVE GRECHE, meaning Greek Beans, a common ...
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Italian Country Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century French Repousse Brass Clad Coal Bin on Casters with Hunt Motifs
Located in Dallas, TX
Crafted in France, circa 1870, the antique brass coffer is mounted on a wooden frame, and stands on caster wheels. The slant top opens up with stopping chain revealing inside storage...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Mint C. and Large Antique Display Shell Box w. Beveled Glass Top & Silver Spoons
Located in Lisse, NL
Fine quality and condition, 1860s box with perfect working silver lock and key.
This handcrafted spoon box is another one of our recent great finds. It comes with beautifully shaped...
Category
Dutch Biedermeier Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique Dome Top Calling Card Box, English, Walnut, Brass, Desk Tidy, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique dome top calling card box. An English, walnut and brass bound desktop tidy, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850.
B...
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British Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Italian 19th Century Braided Straw Box from a Monastery in Umbria Region
Located in Milano, MI
An Italian straw work box decorated everywhere with extraordinary straw-work geometrical marquetry on a wooden structure, coated even inside and at the bottom.
This Italian box, has a rectangular shape, hand-realized in an antique abbey...
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Italian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Iron
Dutch Mid 19th Century Wooden Spoon Box with 12 Silver Tea Spoons
Located in Delft, NL
A Dutch mid 19th century wooden spoon box with 12 silver tea spoons
A mahogany wooden spoon box with red velvet fabric with 12 silver tea spoons. Dutch s...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
C. 1850 American Domed Leather Document or Valise Box, - Worcester County
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mid-19th Century American Domed Leather Document or Valise Box, Monogrammed “H. S.”, Likely Worcester County, Massachusetts
Measuring 17 inches wide, 9.25 inches deep, and 7 inches ...
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American American Colonial Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century Swedish Folkart Empire Chest / Box with Originalpaint
Located in Boden, SE
19th Century Swedish Folkart Empire Chest /box from Skelleftea Vasterbotten ,Northern Sweden.
Decorative Wood imitaition painted small chest /box with...
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Swedish Empire Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Dog's Townhouse
Located in Greenwich, CT
A 19th c. English doghouse for a small dog in the form of a Georgian townhouse in lovely original faded ochre paint with a pitched gable roof with two chimneys with double chimney pots. Great painted detail including 12 over 12 double hung sash windows with stone headers, elliptical fanlight overdoor window and grand arched door frame.
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English Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$6,900
Victorian Hungarian Ash Tea Caddy
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A charming Mid-19th Century hungarian ash tea caddy of unusual design, having applied tablet & chequered strung decoration to well figured exterior, with slightly domed hinged top en...
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English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ash
Mid 19th century Swedish painted table top writing desk
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Mid 19th century Swedish painted table top writing desk circa 1850.
Good quality table top bureau, presented in original scraped back paint. Made from solid pine and scraped back t...
Category
Swedish Gustavian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine, Paint
