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Material: Bone
Silver and Tortoiseshell Singing Bird Box by Bontems, circa 1900
By Bontems
Located in London, GB
A beautiful Singing bird box by bontems of Paris, Circa 1900. Tortoisesheel embellished with sterling silver, with silver and enamel lid.
Category
Early 1900s French Late Victorian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Silver
Late 19th Century Tortoise Shell Needle Case with Mother of Pearl Inlay
Located in Stamford, CT
Late 19th century tortoise shell needle case with a mother of pearl inlay. A knife box shape with a hinged lid and a package of the original needles in the original packaging marked ...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell, Mother-of-Pearl
Mid Century Shell Box
Located in Tampa, FL
A beautifully made 1970s bone and Indian silver box in the shape of a shell. A very pretty box. The interior measures 3.5".
Category
1970s Indian Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique French Bronze Dore Portrait Box
Located in Tampa, FL
A strikingly beautiful French dore bronze box is all engraved with an ivory picture of an aristocrat, LeBron. The box is heavily chased with a velvet i...
Category
1890s French Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Mudejar Small Coffer with Bone Inlays, Faux Tortoiseshell and an Iron Hardware
Located in Bosques de las Lomas, MX
The small Mudejar coffer is decorated with stars using bone inlay, faux tortoiseshell and ebony. It also has a masterfully crafted iron lock.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Bone Boxes
Materials
Iron
Tessellated Horn and Wood Veneer Trinket Box in the Style of R & Y Augousti
Located in San Diego, CA
A very well crafted tessellated horn and wood veneer trinket box in the style of R & Y Augousti, circa 1990s. The piece is in very good condition and measures 4.75" W x 4.75" D x 3.2...
Category
Late 20th Century North American Organic Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Wood, Horn
English Shagreen Tea Caddy 19th with Bone Finial
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique English shagreen cased six sided wooden tea caddy with nice silver mounts, bone finial and undivided interior. Comes with small silver pin to ...
Category
1880s English Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Silver
Faux Tortoiseshell Small Early 20th Century Layered Folding Jewelry Box w/Clasp
Located in Larkspur, CA
This is a multi layered folding faux tortoise jewelry box with vertical clasps.
It’s originally from London, and is meant for compartmentalizing jewe...
Category
Early 20th Century European Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Antique Middle Eastern Box
Located in Tampa, FL
This is an Indian box with the Taj Mahal artwork on bone. This fabulous box is quite large and in very good condition. There are also four portraits in the corners. Circa 1890’s.
Category
1890s Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood, Paint
Mudejar style Diamonds Small Coffer with sgraffito bone decore & iron details
Located in Bosques de las Lomas, MX
This mudejar styled small coffer is inspired by the XVIIth Century and is decorated with sgraffito bone with iron details.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Dimensional Black Carved Bone Box
Located in New York, NY
Handcrafted keepsake, desk box featuring hand carved diamond shaped black bone tiles, lined in wood. A great accessory for a desk or a coffee table.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Antique Victorian Silver Card Case Trinket and Snuff Box Regency Grand Tour 19ct
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning Example of a Ladies Well Figure Tortoise Shell Silver Framed Hinged Lid Card Case of generous proportions, made during the first half of the Nineteenth Century. The rectangular hinged cover with lavish silver inlay depicting a trailing branch of flowers and foliage.
Condition: Good condition for such an early piece with no losses to inlays, nice surface patination to tortoiseshell. The case closes firmly.
Width: (at widest, just over) 5.5" (14cm). Depth: 3” (8cm).
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An oval well figured horn trinket box with separate lid, late Nineteenth Century
Condition: Perfect condition, lid closes firmly
Width: 4.5” (11.5cms). Depth: 2.25” (5.5cms).
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Rectangular well figured Tortoiseshell hinged lid trinket or snuff box, possibly Regency period
Condition: Tiny loss at one corner, otherwise excellent.
Width: (just under) 3.5” (8.5cms).
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Rectangular horn and Tortoiseshell Snuff Box...
Category
19th Century English Regency Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Silver
Tortoise Cigarette and Match Box with Sterling Mounts. Priced per box.
Located in Buchanan, MI
Tortoise cigarette and match box with sterling mounts. Priced per box. We also have numerous other tortoise boxes and accessories. Feel free to call or email with questions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Tortoise Shell Decorative Box with Paw Feet. Tortoise Shell With Bun Feet.
Located in Buchanan, MI
Tortoise shell decorative box with bun feet. We have other tortoise boxes similar in form that would be a lovely collection. Feel free to call or email with questions. Priced per b...
Category
19th Century English Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
19th Century Napoleon III Burl Wood Sewing Box
Located in Paris, FR
Varnished, burl wood sewing box, decorated with Greek frieze and brass inlays. The box contains a mirror and sewing utensils made of bone and brass, as...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Carl Auböck Box with Comb and a Brush, Austria, 1960s
Located in Berlin, DE
Carl Auböck brush and comb in a box, Austria 1960s.
Category
1960s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Wood, Horn
Carl Auböck Comb and Brush in a Box, Austria, 1960s
Located in Berlin, DE
Carl Auböck brush and comb in a box, Austria, 1960s.
Category
1960s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Horn, Wood
Tessellated Horn Jewelry Box by Maitland-Smith
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Tessellated horn jewelry box by Maitland-Smith.
Category
Late 20th Century Philippine Hollywood Regency Bone Boxes
Materials
Jade, Brass
Mid-Century Modern Tessellated Horn & Stone Large Box, Tavola by Oggetti
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Mid-Century Modern Tessellated Horn & Stone large box, designed by Eugenio Tavola for Oggetti, of saracphagus shape with a hinged lid, the interior lined with original fabric, with a single drawer, the reverse with foil stamp, 'TAVOLA by OGGETTI.'.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Stone
Large Mainland Smith Jewelry Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large Maitland Smith jewelry box with mixed stones and brass details.
Category
1980s Philippine Hollywood Regency Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone
Tessellated Bone Box Style of Enrique Garcel
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish tessellated bone and mahogany box is very much in the style of pieces created by Karl Springer and Enrique Garcel in the 1970s-1980s.
Category
Late 20th Century Colombian Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Victorian Miniature Black forest Antler Casket 1860
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A marvelous antique rustic casket. It is made of wood, veneered with antler pieces. On top an antler plaque with staghound carving. The feet are made of ...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Black Forest Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Antler, Wood
Walnut Dome Top Tea Caddy with Brass and Bone Decoration, English, circa 1870
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Walnut dome top tea caddy with brass and bone decoration, English, circa 1870
Dimensions: W 9”, D 4.75”, H 4.5”.
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Tessellated Bone Large Box By Robert Marcius
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
Dimensions: 12.25W x 8.25D x 7.75H, In great condition.
Category
Late 20th Century Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone
19C Anglo Ceylonese Sewing Box of Museum Quality
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an absolutely stunning 19c Anglo Ceylonese sewing box of museum quality.
Made in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) circa 1860, this is one of the finest sewing boxes of it’s kind that we have ever seen!
The box is made from coromandel wood (an exotic hardwood found in Ceylon) and has a serpentine edging all over the front, back and sides.
Very often the lids/tops of these boxes suffer cracks due to shrinkage but this one is near perfect with no crack in the lid/top. There is some evidence of natural shrinkage but that is around the edges of the lid/top.
It is when you open this box that it reveals it’s true beauty, quality and treasure !
The inside of the lid/top is heavily and beautifully decorated with inlaid bone in scrolling floral patterns which have then been hand painted with red and black ‘lac’ ink. The central medallion is a circle of inlaid specimen exotic hardwoods radiating towards a central bone and hand painted flower. The circle is edged in bone, wood and silver chevrons.
What makes this box Exceptionally rare is that it contains 3 lift out base sections. Normally, there would be a maximum of 2.
The first tray/section is clearly for the purposes ancillary to sewing with a pair of sections with bone spools for thread etc. There are 17 other lidded compartments with each one highly decorated using hand painted bone and specimen woods to replicate tortoiseshell.
The first tray lifts out to reveal a second removeable tray which is made up of a pair of open sections and 8 specimen wood lidded sections each with chevron banding.
The third tray is a smaller tray underneath with 14 lidded compartments each with hand painted bone and specimen wood inlaid lids again, replicating the look of tortoiseshell. Again they are banded with a chevron border.
This is a museum quality piece !
It is in fantastic condition for it’s age with the minor shrinkage to the edges of the lid/top, some finger pulls missing and some very minor cracks to the tray lids and bases but nothing that in any way detracts from the piece. No key.
Dimensions: Closed the box is 16.75 inches wide, 11.25 inches deep and 7.5 inches high
Fully open the box is 16.5 inches high, 16.75 inches wide and 11.4 inches deep
Anglo-Indian and ceylonese boxes: Anglo Indian boxes were made in India for the English residents from the early part of the 18th century. They were brought back or sent back to England usually by the people who had commissioned them. From the beginning of the nineteenth century they were imported more commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the middle decades. They were very highly valued, especially the early ones, to the extent that the designs were copied on late 19th and early 20th century tins.
Anglo-Indian boxes normally consist of 3 main types:-
(1) Most of the best and highest quality Anglo-Indian boxes in the 18th and 19th centuries were made in Vizagapatam, India, renowned for its exquisite craftsmanship in using ivory and tortoiseshell and lac decoration. These are referred to as ‘Vizagapatam Boxes...
Category
Mid-19th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Silver
19th Century Sewing Box by Maison Aucoc, Paris
By A. Aucoc
Located in Paris, FR
Late 19th century oval sewing box decorated with crowned monogram. The case contains five gold and steel sewing utensils embellished with small flowers. Labeled on the inside: AUCOC A PARIS. Weight: 27.6 g,
circa 1860
Dimension: W 4.5 in, D 2.4in, H .8in.
Dimension: L 11.5cm, P 6cm, H 2cm.
La Maison Aucoc...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Gold, Steel
19C Anglo Ceylonese Lap Desk of Museum Quality
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an absolutely fantastic 19C Anglo Ceylonese lap desk of museum quality.
We can safely say that this is one of the finest lap desks we hav...
Category
Early 19th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Ebony, Sandalwood
Danish Early 19th Century Empire Tobacco Box
Located in Kastrup, DK
A charming mahogany tobacco box in an architecturally intriguing form. The top of the lid is adorned with a small knob of bone.
Great quality and craftsmanship.
Empire. Denmark, ...
Category
Early 19th Century Danish Empire Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Mahogany
Cut Crystal Jar with Tortoise and Silver Top, England, 1923
Located in Stamford, CT
A beautiful cut crystal jar with a tortoise shell and silver top from a private collection made in England in 1923.
Category
Early 20th Century English Bone Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Silver
Regency Anglo Indian Quill Work Vizagapatam Sandalwood Sewing Box
Located in New York, NY
This fine Regency period quill work, bone, ivory & sandalwood sewing box
with intact interior w sewing implements.
Category
Early 19th Century Indian Regency Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Ivory, Sandalwood
Set of Three Austrian Silver Boxes and Covers, Johann Hoppe, Vienna, 1920s
Located in North Miami, FL
A set of three Austrian silver boxes and covers, Johann Hoppe, Vienna, circa 1925. These are marked on bases and covers in Secessionist style, one ...
Category
19th Century Austrian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
19th Century French Napoleon III Marquetry and Ivory Cigar Humidor
Located in LEGNY, FR
Beautiful 19th century French Napoleon III blackened wooden cigar cellar and ivory marquetry ornamentation. Four drawers for cigars and one drawer for ...
Category
1850s French Napoleon III Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century English Brass & Bone Banded Calamander Dome Top Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
19th century English brass and bone banded calamander box with dome top.
Category
19th Century English Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century English Tortoiseshell Hinged Box with Silver Decorations
Located in Marbella, ES
19th century English tortoiseshell hinged box with silver decorations.
Category
19th Century English Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Scandinavian Modern Cigar Box by Knud Albert, 1960s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Along with Alfred Klitgaard Knud Albert is regarded as one of the most prolific wood artist of the 1960s. Although KA is mostly known for his strange moder...
Category
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
19th Century French Napoleon III Black Lacquer Cave a Liqueur or Tantalus
Located in Fayetteville, AR
This mid-19th century French Napoleon III period black lacquer cave a liqueur (liqueur caddy) or tantalus features bronze and tortoiseshell inlaid cartouches on the lid and doors. Ad...
Category
1860s French Napoleon III Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Set of 2 Anglo Indian Boxes
Located in Vosselaar, BE
Set of 2 Anglo Indian boxes. Both early 20th century with bone and faux tortoise decorations. In overall good condition. The bone of the back from the larger box is absent and some s...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
White Bone Textured Box, India, Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Indian all-over textured lidded white bone box.
ARRIVAL TBD
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone
Antique Large Chinese Metal and Cinnabar Humidor Art Deco Box, circa 1920
Located in Vero Beach, FL
This rare Chinese Art Deco box is made from copper alloy. The top is decorated with hand carved black cinnabar and highlighted with a finely carved bone figure...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Bone Boxes
Materials
Copper
Pair of English Victorian Hammered Metal Boxes
Located in New York, NY
Pair of English Victorian-style (20th Century) hammered silver cylindrical shaped box with scroll design and veneered cover with acorn finial top. (stamped: Royal House) (priced as p...
Category
20th Century Victorian Bone Boxes
Materials
Silver
Burlwood Erotic Snuff Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
There is much more to this exquisite Georgian snuffbox than meets the eye. Beautifully crafted of striking burlwood, this unassuming box features a lining of precious tortoiseshell and a false bottom, which, when gently unscrewed, reveals a miniature erotic painting of exceptional detail. Erotic antiques...
Category
19th Century English Other Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell, Burl
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
Mid-19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Metal
Ceylonese 'Sri Lankan' Ebony Writing Slope
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine early 19th century carved ebony writing slope, the exterior richly carved with foliate decoration, the interior profusely inlaid with bone dots forming floral geometric pat...
Category
Early 19th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Ebony, Sandalwood
Erotic Snuff Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
A scintillating Sapphic scene adorns the cover of this rare erotic snuff box. Set into the top of this burlwood and tortoiseshell container, this high...
Category
19th Century European Other Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell, Glass
Early 18th Century Inlaid Italian Walnut and Tortoise Shell Vargueno
Located in Charleston, SC
Early 18th century inlaid Italian walnut and tortoiseshell vargueno. 6 drawers with fine inlay, iron hardware.
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Iron
Tortoise Shell Sewing Box on Stand, circa 1860
Located in Lambertville, NJ
This wonderful example of a 19th century tortoise shell sewing box on stand opens to original fabric lined interior of compartments with a central ...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
George III Rococco Pressed Tortoiseshell, Ormolu, Bilston/Battersea Snuff Box
Located in London, GB
An extremely rare antique English George III Rococo pressed tortoiseshell, ormolu and Battersea enamel snuff box. This beautiful oblong box is in pristine condition and has been well...
Category
1760s English Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu
Pair of Asian Lidded Boxes
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Two Asian lidded boxes crafted with bone and black lacquer, engraved with floral and geometric designs, and a painted symbolic center medallion. Priced individually.
From left to...
Category
20th Century Chinese Art Deco Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone
Majestic Spinning Wheel Made of Ebony Wood
Located in Doornspijk, NL
Not only Sleeping Beauty's hair has the color of ebony wood, so do a number of details of this antique spinning wheel. The well shaped lances and bu...
Category
18th Century Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Ebony
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Round Box with Natural Horn Body
Located in VALENZA, IT
Sterling silver box with natural horn body.
The box has been completely handmade.
The hinged smooth lid, the ring and the base with feet have been shaped by hand on the shape of th...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Charles II Table Box
Located in Greenwich, CT
Rare mid-17th century English bone inlaid and brass mounted oak center table box, the top and sides inlaid with compass stars in bone and ebonized fruit-wood, the edges with bone and...
Category
Mid-17th Century English Charles II Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Engraved Tortoiseshell Music Box with French Revolutionary Inscription
Located in London, GB
This finely engraved and inscribed tortoiseshell music box is a precious piece of French Revolution and Napoleonic history: given as a gift by the Duchess of Gdansk in 1837 to a neph...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Gene Jonson & Robert Marcius Dresser-Top Box with Bone and Exotic Wood Lid
Located in New York, NY
A vintage dresser-top box, manufactured circa 1970s by Gene Jonson and Robert Marcius, with an elaborate lid, veneered in exotic woods and inlaid bone, over an octagonal shaped chrom...
Category
1970s American Organic Modern Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Chrome
Antique Chinese Bone and Copper Mounted Box
Located in London, GB
Antique Chinese bone and copper mounted box.
Chinese, 19th century.
Measures: height 13 cm, width 26 cm, depth 14.5 cm.
This fine Chinese box...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Copper
Early 19th Century Russian Stained and Carved Bone Table Box with delicate gold
Located in Larkspur, CA
Early 19th century Russian stained and hand-carved Bone Table Casket Kholmogory Box, veneered with panels of foliate engraved stained bone alternating with geometric and foliate fret...
Category
Early 19th Century Russian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone
English Black Lacquered and Gilt Stenciled Figural Pagoda Tea Caddy, Circa 1810
Located in Hollywood, SC
English octagonal hinged black lacquered tea caddy with gilt stenciled figural pagoda, decorative foliage motif, original hand chased lidded in...
Category
Early 1800s English George III Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Pewter
19th Century French Cloisonné Jewellery Box by Maison Alphonse Giroux
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A French gilt-bronze mounted, fruit wood and ivory marquetry metal cloisonné jewellery box by Maison Alphonse Giroux and Ferdinand Duvinage, Paris, ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Mid-Century Modern Tessellated Antler, Chrome & Granite Box by Jonson & Marcius
Located in New York, NY
This bold and sophisticated decorative box was realized by the esteemed artisans Gene Jonson and Robert Marcius in the United States, circa 1970. This is a particularly stunning exam...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Granite, Bronze, Chrome
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