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Period: 20th Century
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 Boxes

Materials

Metal, Brass

Scandinavian Jewelry Bronze Trinket Box with Daisies, 1920s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Small unusual jewelry trinket in bronze, brass and metal. The lid and bottom is decorated with daisies . Its interior is linned with green textile. It was made in the late 10s or ear...
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European Late Victorian Vintage 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Metal, Brass, Bronze

Limoges Porcelain Oval Trinket box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Limoges Porcelain Oval Trinket Box. Its background is hand painted light yellow. The top of the hinged lid is adorned with a large sunflower and the sides of its base with ...
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French Victorian 20th Century 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 Boxes

Materials

Wood

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 Boxes

Materials

Silver

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 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 Boxes

Materials

Chrome

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 Boxes

Materials

Brass

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 Boxes

Materials

Art Glass

Large Chinese Tea Box Black Lacquered Gilt Hand Painted Octagonal Box 1940s
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large Chinese Export Tea Box Octagonal Black Lacquered Gilt Painted Covered Box 1940s. Antique Chinoiserie black lacquer box with numerous figures and gilt detail. Asian Chinese blac...
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Chinese Chinese Export 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Giltwood, Lacquer

Italian Pill Box Micro Mosaic Millefiori
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oval Italian brass pill box with an inlayed floral glass micro mosaic millefiori design and twisted rope top lid, finished with a brass ...
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Italian 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Brass

Asprey London Solid Sterling Silver Cigarette Box Owned By The Mayor of London
Located in Reading, Berkshire
A Sterling Silver Hallmarked Engine Turned Cigarette Presentation Box With A Textured Border, by Asprey & Co London. Within an original Asprey & Co fitted case. Weight of silver 475g...
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British Victorian 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Silver

Mid-Century Wooden Jewelry Box
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
Wooden jewelry box. Beautiful jewelry box, most likely of Portuguese origin, in wood with a lacquered effect. Lined internally with satin red fabric and printed with delicate embosse...
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Portuguese Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Wood

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 Boxes

Materials

Porcelain

Green Alabaster and Brass Jewelry Box by Romano Bianchi, Italy 1970s
Located in ROUEN, Normandie
Green Alabaster and Brass Jewelry Box by Romano Bianchi, Italy 1970s Very elegant jewelry or decorative box (originally crafted to store cigarettes). Made of green alabaster and br...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Onyx, Alabaster, Marble

Danish design. Lidded box in hardwood. Mid-20th century.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Danish design. Lidded box in hardwood. From the mid-20th century. Handcrafted. Unstamped. In excellent condition. Dimensions: Height 12.0 cm x Diameter 8.6 cm. Provenance: Danish pri...
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Danish Scandinavian Modern 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Hardwood

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 Boxes

Materials

Tin

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 Boxes

Materials

Marble

Maches Mexican Brutalist Bronze Slanted Dresser Box
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine Brutalist dresser box. With embossed lines around the circumference and a slanted body. In the style of Pal Kepenyes. The lid is decorated with a bowl-like shape containing...
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Mexican Brutalist 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Bronze

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...
Category

Indian Anglo-Indian 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Bone, Tortoise Shell

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 Boxes

Materials

Metal

Large French Art Deco Wooden Jewelry Box with Marquetry Inlay
Located in Miami, FL
A large and very good quality French Art Deco style jewelry box made of walnut with fruitwood inlay. Hand-crafted with an eye to details. Grea...
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French Art Deco 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Fruitwood, Walnut

Carousel Cigar Box, Spinning Music Box Modeled As A Black And Gold Pagoda
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
This vintage mid century cigar caddy carousel with music box is absolutely amazing. It features a black lacquer exterior and brass metal accents. The humidor features 6 rotating side panels .One out of two of them are ornately decorated with ornament . The interior of each panel has brass fittings with rings cups for holding cigars and cigarillos. The underside of the cigar box has a wind up music box...
Category

20th Century Boxes

Materials

Brass, Steel

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 Boxes

Materials

Oak

Small Lacquered Painted Box with Russian Tzar Scene on Lid - Signed
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A small painted and lacquered box with a lid in black. This piece was created in the 1920s in the USSR. It is lacquered in a glossy black, with a hand-painted scene of a tzar on the ...
Category

Russian Agra 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Lacquer, Paint

Vintage Rhodochrosite Box
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A beautiful vintage Rhodochrosite box out of a collection of 4 rare stone boxes we recently acquired out of an estate collection. This box has stunni...
Category

Italian Vintage 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Stone

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 Boxes

Materials

Aluminum

Antique Art & Crafts Cedar Wood Pewter Box / Casket 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a magnificent antique Arts and Crafts cedar wood and pewter casket,  circa 1900 in date. The rectangular box features storks in flight with decoration and an inset round tur...
Category

Arts and Crafts 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Pewter

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...
Category

Indian Modern 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Metal, Brass, Enamel

Vintage Italian Genuine Hand Carved Gold and Green Round Alabaster Trinket Box
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Italian genuine hand carved tan and green alabaster box, trinket, made in Italy. Round lidded hinged trinket jewelry box, rich gold and bro...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Stone, Alabaster

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 Boxes

Materials

Glass, Mirror

Moorish Micro Mosaic Inlaid Jewelry Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Moorish style micro mosaic marquetry inlaid jewelry box with lid. Intricate inlaid Anglo Indian box with floral and geometric Islamic Moorish mosaic Sadeli design in a square shape form with mosaic inlay and marquetry, very fine artwork, lined in red velvet. Museum collector piece like the one in Doris Duke Islamic Art Museum. The repeating geometric patterns of Sadeli Mosaic are what give it beauty and richness. This decorative technique is a type of micro mosaic featuring repeating geometric patterns. A highly skilled craft, it has had a long history in India and the Middle East with early examples dating back to the 16th century. In the 1800s, it became popular as a decoration on a variety of boxes, card cases, and chess boards imported from India. Since Bombay became a center of making them, they became known as Bombay boxes...
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Indian Agra 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Wood

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 Boxes

Materials

Metal, Brass, Steel

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 Boxes

Materials

Sterling Silver

Lalique France 20th Century Epis Wheat Glass Box
Located in Milan, IT
Lalique France 20th Century Epis Wheat Glass Box Molded glass with two heads of wheat in relief, partially frosted to contrast with the transparent glass. Signed Lalique France
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French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Nickel

Art Deco Sterling Silver Compact and Card Case
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a beautifully crafted Art Deco period Sterling Silver Lady's Compact or necessaire. This stunning engraved and monogrammed compact opens to reveal a sterling silver interior with fittings for two different types of coins and a covered powder dispenser...
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American Art Deco 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Sterling Silver

Vintage Italian Raymor Ceramic Lidded Flower Box Turquoise and White
Located in North Miami, FL
This lovely vintage Italian hallmarked lidded ceramic flower box by Raymor is from the 60's. The colors are turquoise, white with outlines of gray charcoal. The hallmarks read 03529 ...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Ceramic

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"
Category

Russian 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Softwood, Paper

Chinese Shagreen Glasses Case with Tassels, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This Chinese spectacle case is carved from wood with a striking shagreen covering. The case dates from the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), still in wonderful condition with a rich deep col...
Category

Chinese Qing 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Metal

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 Boxes

Materials

Crystal, Brass

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 Boxes

Materials

Ceramic

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 Boxes

Materials

Silver

Nicole Frères. Mystique de Genève. A Wonderful Music Box with Six Calming Tunes.
Located in London, GB
Nicole Frères. Mystique de Genève. A rare and wonderful music box which when wound will play six different wonderful calming and tranquil tunes. Set into...
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20th Century Boxes

Materials

Rosewood

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 Boxes

Materials

Metal, Steel

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 Boxes

Materials

Crocodile

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 Boxes

Materials

Brass

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 Boxes

Materials

Silver

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 Boxes

Materials

Soapstone

One-Off Winsor & Newton Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Sterling Silver 1977 Artist Box
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely one of a kind Winsor & Newton 1977 Queen Elizabeth Jubilee presentation with sterling silver ...
Category

English Early Victorian 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Crystal, Sterling Silver

Malachite hexagonal box, ca 1930
Located in Bilzen, BE
A complete malachite box from around 1930 in a hexagonal shape, with a loose lid This is the kind of malachite what's coming from Congo the box meassures 8.2 x 8.2 cm and has a tota...
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Congolese Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Malachite

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 Boxes

Materials

Alabaster

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 Boxes

Materials

Pewter

Art Nouveau Scorpion Fish Repoussé Box by Alfred Daguet
Located in Chicago, US
Alfred Louis Achille DAGUET (1875 - 1942) was a metalsmith active in Paris during the first part of the 20th century. His metalwork created prior to the outbreak of World War I, note...
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French Art Nouveau Antique 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Enamel, Steel

Pocket Cigarette Case Vessel Miniature Hand-Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salim
Located in Firenze, FI
6238-7239- Pocket cigarette case with spring button in 925/1000 fire-enamelled sterling silver with beautiful vessel miniature hand-painted by th...
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Italian Empire 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Crystal, Sterling Silver, Enamel

1950s Aldo Tura Mid-Century Modern Goatskin and Brass Pipe Shaped Tobacco Box
Located in Aci Castello, IT
A Goatskin and Brass tobacco box designed by Aldo Tura and manufactured by Macabo in the Fifties, it's in lovely vintage condition with brass in original patina. This exquisite tobac...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Brass

Bronze Casket by Just Andersen, 1920s, Denmark
Located in Værløse, DK
Lidded Casket in Bronze alloy made by Just Andersen in the 1920s. A beautiful piece for an exquisite home. * Casket / lidded box in light-bronze alloy with and inside wood box. Orn...
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Danish Vintage 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Bronze

Antique Carved Mahogany Coal Box
Located in Ipswich, GB
Antique Carved Mahogany Coal Box, having the original brass ornate carrying handles to the sides. The quality carved mahogany door has an unusual ornate bra...
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20th Century Boxes

Materials

Mahogany

Green Glass Box and Perfume Vanity Bottle
Located in New York, NY
A green glass and gold gilt round jewelry box and perfume vanity bottle, circa early to mid-20th century. This is a unique piece; a box and perfume bottle in one. A great piece for a...
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American Bohemian 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Crystal

Large Folk Art Sea Shell Encrusted Tissue or Kleenex Box Cover
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A large folk art sea shell encrusted tissue box. This shell-covered box is the perfect way to add coastal design to a space. It is rectangular in sh...
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American Folk Art 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Shell, Fabric, Wood

Handcrafted Studio Rotating Pyramid Jewelry Box
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
A striking and sculpturally refined studio-crafted jewelry box by American designer John P. Schmidt, dated 1989. Designed in a bold pyramidal form, the piece is meticulously made fro...
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Post-Modern Vintage 20th Century Boxes

Materials

Metal

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