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Style: Victorian
Antique English Oak & Silver Plated Drum Form Biscuit Box or Barrel, circa 1890
Located in Bath, GB
A wonderful Victorian biscuit box or barrel, always highly sought-after in this Drum form, I have probably not had one for three or four years, that's how scarce and hard to come by they are.
The fittings are made from silver plate with the lid topped with a finial in the form of a pair or drum sticks...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Victorian Period Sterling Silver Heart-Form Trinkets Box Having a Hinged Lid
Located in New York, NY
Victorian Period, sterling silver, heart-form trinkets box having a hinged lid and gilded interior, Birmingham, England, year-hallmarked for 1895, James Aitchison - maker (by Appoint...
Category
1890s English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Small Antique Apprentice Chest, Anglo-Indian, Colonial Keepsake Box, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a small antique apprentice-piece chest. An Anglo-Indian, carved teak Colonial keepsake box, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1880....
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Teak
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...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Ash
Antique 19th Century Victorian Engraved Horses Pony Hoof Pewter Snuff Box 1860
Located in Portland, OR
An unusual mid 19th century Victorian horses hoof & pewter snuff box, circa 1860.
The snuff box having a hinged lid with engraved floral decoration an...
Category
1860s English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Pewter
Magician's Trick Double Wood Boxes with Ties, circa 1890
Located in Incline Village, NV
This item is from a collection of "magic" props from a California estate, and was accumulated in New York City; home too many famous conjurors; Houdini, Hermann the Great, and Copper...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Wood
Sterling Silver Snuff or Trinket Box
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
19th century sterling silver monogrammed snuff or trinket box.
Category
19th Century Antique Victorian Boxes
Victorian Nécessaire de Voyage
Located in New Orleans, LA
A work of extraordinary craftsmanship, this exquisite English vanity case is as much an item of luxury as it is of necessity. Known as a nécessaire de voyage...
Category
19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Velvet, Glass, Wood
Antique Coromandel Writing/ Stationary Cabinet by Houghton and Gunn 19th Century
By William Houghton and Charles Gunn
Located in London, GB
A very fine antique Victorian Coromandel writing or stationary cabinet made by the world famous London box makers and retailers Houghton and Gunn, dated December 1878.
The wonderfu...
Category
1870s Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Wood
Antique Figured Walnut Complete Sewing Box Hausburg
By F.L. Hausburg
Located in Northampton, GB
Complete with Sewing Accompaniments
From our Sewing Boxes collection, we are thrilled to offer this stunning Figured Walnut Sewing Box Attributed to Hausburg. The box of rectangula...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Brass
Victorian Boulle Dome-top Letter Box
Located in Bradenton, FL
A 19th century Victorian Boulle dome-top letter box is a luxurious and distinctive piece of mail storage that combines functionality with ornate design, r...
Category
19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Wood
Antique Victorian Royal Horse Racing Prize Tea Chest with Silver Tea Caddies
Located in Northampton, GB
Awarded at Fernhill 18th August 1843
From our Tea Caddy collection, we are thrilled to offer this Ebonised Tea Chest given as a Royal Prize is 1843. The Tea Chest of rectangular for...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Silver
Singing Bird Cage by Bontems
By Bontems
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Rare and very decorative singing bird automaton.
Made in de 4th quarter of the 19th century by Bontems in Paris (France).
This top quality singing bird has a wooden gilded base to ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Metal, Gold Plate, Other
Victorian Continental Silver .800 Hannau Footed Tea Caddy
Located in New York, NY
Victorian, Continental silver .800, footed tea caddy, Germany, with Hannau marks, circa. 1895, B. Neresheimer and Sohne - makers. Chased with dancing ...
Category
1890s German Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mid Victorian Amboyana Ladies Jewellery Box and Writing Slope c1860
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Amboyana jewellery box and writing slope
Date : c1860
Period : Victoria
Origin : England
Decoration : Bird eye maple box with amboyana ...
Category
1860s British Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Wood
Rare Cawston 1836 William IV Rare Wood Gentleman Military Campaign Vanity Box
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely and very rare James Cawston dressing case make gentleman’s military campaign vanity box 1836
A very collectable and rare piece, the ...
Category
1830s English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Presentation Box, Japanese, Lacquered, Hand Painted, Oriental, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique presentation box. A Japanese, lacquered lidded case with hand painted Oriental decor, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900.
Superb Japanese interest wi...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Fine Antique English Toulmin & Gale Attrib Madagascar Ebony Stationary Box
By Toulmin & Gale
Located in Forney, TX
A stunning very fine quality antique English stationary box in striking exotic hardwood coromandel / madagascar ebony. circa 1880
Exquisitely hand-crafted in England in the 19th cen...
Category
19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Brass
Outstanding Games Box in Burl Walnut, Brass and Malachite, c.1880
Located in Bath, GB
A stunning English Victorian Games / playing card box made from Burl Walnut mounted with impressive polished brass mounts beautifully detailed, and in turn, inset with polished green malachite stones.
The box comes with a working (replacement) key which when unlocked reveals a fitted interior complete with a wooden cribbage board, whist markers...
Category
1880s British Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Malachite, Brass
Fine Quality Antique Stationary Box
Located in Ipswich, GB
Fine quality antique stationary box having a quality mahogany rectangular box with original brass carrying handles, the hinged lid opens to reve...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
Early 20th Century hand carved Kashmiri royal cavalry cigar box
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century hand carved Kashmiri royal cavalry cigar box
A rare survivor from the 1st world war in the form of a hand carved Kashmiri cigar box. Covered in ornate relief flora...
Category
Early 1900s Indian Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Wood
Antique English Walnut Military Campaign Chest or Lap Desk with Brass Mounts
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique campaign box is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from England and date to approximately 1820 and done in the period Victoria...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Brass
Fantastic quality antique Victorian rosewood and mother of pearl inlaid work box
Located in Ipswich, GB
Fantastic quality antique Victorian rosewood and mother of pearl inlaid work box having a quality antique Victorian work box with stunning mother of pearl inlay, with a lift up lid o...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
Antique English Hand-Carved Oak and Silver Plate Biscuit Box / Barrel
Located in Bath, GB
A handsome and very unusual late Victorian / early Edwardian biscuit box made from solid English Oak, beautifully carved with a bark design.
The fit...
Category
1890s British Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Unusual Victorian All Sterling Silver Gilt Dresser or Trinkets Jar
Located in New York, NY
Unusual, Victorian, beautiful, all sterling silver gilt dresser jar, Dominick and Haff, New York, year dated for 1890. Lovely interlocking script m...
Category
1890s American Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Victorian Decorative or Jewelry Box, in Wood, England, 19th Century
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This box is a jewelry box or a decorative box. It was made in the 19th century, in England, Victorian Period. Its lid is made in wood, brown in color.
Category
19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Metal
Automaton singing bird by Bontems
By Bontems
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Unique flower pot with singing bird automaton made by Bontems in the last quarter of the 19th century.
Bontems was a manufacturer of bird automatons in Paris. He produced decent num...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Metal, Gold Plate, Other
19th Century Victorian Mother Of Pearl Jewellery Box, c.1880
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A stunning late 19th Century Victorian mother of pearl applied jewellery box. Dating back to 1880, this box has a fully covered outer body. The inside of the jewellery box features a...
Category
19th Century British Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Silver
Gorham American Victorian Classical Sterling Silver Jewelry Box 1897
Located in New York, NY
Victorian Classical sterling silver jewelry box. Made by Gorham in Providence in 1897. Oval with hinged cover. Chased leafing scrollwork, flowers, and scallop shells. Beaded and guil...
Category
1890s American Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century Sterling Silver ‘Necessaire De Voyage’ by Leuchars and Son
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An exceptional and rare leather covered wooden case the top with the embossed silver family initials BAB in monogram under a nine pointed crown cartouche; the case is lined with crim...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
Levi & Salaman, Antique Nephrite & Essex Crystal Pill Box, U.K., circa 1911
Located in Chatham, ON
Levi & Salaman - Antique nephrite pill box with floral Essex crystal (rock crystal - reverse carved intaglio) - hand painted and carved daisy in full ...
Category
Early 20th Century British Victorian Boxes
Materials
Jade, Rock Crystal, Gold
Fine Tunbridge Ware Writing Box / Lap Desk, Eridge Castle, circa 1870
Located in Bath, GB
A truly fine example of a Victorian Tunbridge Ware writing box or lap desk dating to circa 1870.
The central section featuring Eridge Castle, East Sussex. The box comes complete with a working tasseled key, the lock in working order.
The top portion lifts to reveal the fitted interior incorporating a pair of brass topped inkwells...
Category
1870s British Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century Majolica Palissy Tobacco Jar Thomas Sergent
Located in Austin, TX
Large Majolica Palissy tobacco jar attributed to Thomas Sergent, circa 1880 unsigned.
Naturalistic movement of the end of 19th century.
The jar have the shape of a trunk with a bir...
Category
1880s French Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Silver Cased Military Interest Presentation Snuff Box 1847
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional and rare antique silver snuffbox reading 'PRESENTED TO St. Mr. P CAMPION, 1st Bn 19th Foot, by His, BROTHER SERJEANTS, As A Mark of Their, Sincere Regard.' in its original shaped fitted case and made by Cronin & Wheeler, Birmingham in 1847. The snuff box, probably unused, is simply stunning the cartouche shaped body engraved with rococo 'C' scrolls, engine turning and floral sprays with a hinged cover and richly gilded interior. The box has clear and crisp silver assay and makers marks to the cover and base and has date marks for 1847.
Provenance: The property of a gentleman.
Sergeant Major Patrick Campion was enlisted with the 19th Foot in 1838 and served in Malta, the Ionian Islands, the West Indies, Canada, the Crimea and India amongst other postings. He received a DCM at the Battle of Alma ‘for his gallant rescue, in company with a couple of his comrades, of a wounded officer of his own company, who was lying in front of the Russian line’s.’ and despite being injured in this act, he recovered and would see action at Inkerman, Redan and the siege of Sevastopol.
Wear to the leather covered fitted case...
Category
1840s English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Silver
Swedish 19th Century burr birch table box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Swedish 19th century burr birch table box circa 1880.
Good quality storage box with working lock and key. Veneered in burr birch with brass handle to the hinged lid. Top opens to ...
Category
Late 19th Century Swedish Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Birch, Pine
Victorian Period Sterling Silver and Peach Enamel, Mounted Crystal Dresser Jar
Located in New York, NY
Victorian Period, sterling silver and peach guilloche enamel - mounted dressing table jar, Providence, Rhode Island, Ca. 1895, Foster and Bailey - makers. Sterling silver lid is bord...
Category
1890s American Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th c. Embossed and Gilded Lap Desk
Located in San Francisco, CA
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A 19th century pressed paper lap desk with an embossed and gilded stag decoration to top. Top and bottom open to reveal storage areas along with an area for writing instrument...
Category
19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Paper
Large Antique Tunbridge Ware Lidded Box
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Large antique Tunbridge Ware box with wide band geometric inlaid banding across top and front. The lid and escutcheon with a rectangular inlaid medallion. The hinged lid opens to rev...
Category
19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Felt, Wood, Paper
Pair Of Antique Decorative Boxes, Chinese, Ceramic, Lidded Dish, Victorian, 1900
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a pair of antique decorative boxes. A Chinese, ceramic lidded dish, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1890.
Appealing tradi...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Silver Plated and Enameled Bat Matchsafe
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Silver plated and enameled bat matchsafe, realistically cast and chased, with enameled wings, unmaked.
Category
20th Century English Victorian Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
CARL HIESS, Antique Silver & Gold Snuff Box with Blue Spinel, Austria, C.1880
Located in Chatham, ON
CARL HEISS - Antique - finest quality - silver and rose gold hinged snuff box with delicate diamond tooled surface - reverse painted French Bulldog on Rock Crystal Intaglio...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Rock Crystal, Sterling Silver
19th Century Victorian Majolica Bird Box Joseph Holdcroft
Located in Austin, TX
19th century Victorian Majolica turquoise box with a bird handle and white flowers attributed to Joseph Holdcroft.
Very rare shape box.
Category
1880s British Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
19th Century, Rosewood & Brass Scent Box
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A charming and particularly good quality mid-19th century, Victorian Period, rosewood perfume scent box, with attractive brass bound decoration and hinged li...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Brass
Small Antique Snuff Pot Chinese Carved Marble, Lidded Jar Victorian, circa 1900
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a very small antique snuff pot. A Chinese, carved marble lidded jar, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900.
Endearingly petite, with...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Marble
Antique Victorian Jewelry Box French Opaline Glass Hand-Painted Art Nouveau
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This antique Victorian opaline glass jewelry casket is a true testament to the opulence and elegance of the era.
The pièce de résistance is undoubtedly its exquisite floral enamel p...
Category
1880s French Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Singing bird box by Bruguier in silver case with enamel to top and lid
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Rectangular silver guilded case with rounded corners.
The oval lid has an enamel painting on the exterior of a mountain view and on the interior brightly enamelled with flower bouqu...
Category
Mid-19th Century Swiss Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver, Enamel, Other
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 ...
Category
1840s English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
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
1830s English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Unusual Austro Hungarian Jeweled Box, Drum
Located in Bath, GB
A most unusual late 19th century novelty box in the form of a drum made from gilded brass inset with a selection of faux cabochon Turquoise, Opals and Garnets.
The handles of the ...
Category
1890s Austrian Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique English Victorian Walnut and Coromandel Jewelery Box
Located in Northampton, GB
Brass Strapped Exterior
From our Jewellery Box collection, we are pleased to offer this Antique Victorian Jewellery Box. The Jewellery...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Victorian quality mahogany stationary box
Located in Ipswich, GB
Antique Victorian quality mahogany stationary box having a sloping front and a pair of mahogany doors opening to reveal a fitted interior, set ...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
19th C Victorian Solid Silver & Antelope Horn Gimble Cigar Lighter, c.1895
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique late-19th century Victorian solid silver & horn mounted table "gimble" cigar lighter. The large Blackbuck antelope horn is mounted with a silver orb-shaped burner on gimble w...
Category
19th Century British Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Victorian Coromandel and Mother of Pearl Writing Slope by Richard Wathew
By Richard Wathew
Located in Northampton, GB
Mother of Pearl Inlay
From our Writing Box collection, we are delighted to offer this Victorian Coromandel and Mother of Pearl Writing Slope by Richard Wathew. The Writing Box of sl...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Leather, Shell, Wood
Fine Antique English Coromandel Decanter / Drinks Box, circa 1880
Located in Bath, GB
A truly magnificent drinks / decanter box made from exotic Coromandel mounted with polished brass mounts inset with a plethora of different kinds of cabochon cut and polished onyx st...
Category
1880s English Antique Victorian Boxes
Antique Victorian mahogany storage box
Located in Ipswich, GB
Antique Victorian mahogany storage box having a quality antique mahogany storage box with red interior.
D. 1860
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Combination Sovereign or Vesta Case
By Thomas Hayes
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver combination sovereign or vesta case, an addition to our diverse box and case collection.
This exceptional antique Victorian English sterling silver combination vesta or sovereign case has a subtly domed rectangular, rounded form.
The anterior and posterior surfaces of this silver case are plain and unembellished.
This antique Victorian sterling silver sovereign case is fitted with a hinged hallmarked push fit cover allowing access to the hallmarked sprung sovereign holders...
Category
Early 1900s British Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Silver
19th Century English Victorian Hand Painted Letter Box, Dated 1890
Located in Stamford, CT
Unusual 19th century letter box with whimsical ink decoration inside and out, signed and dated 1890. With wonderfully naive ink decoration, inc...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Wood
Victorian Rosewood Tunbridge Ware Tea Caddy
Located in Northampton, GB
Dome Topped Tea Caddy
From our Tunbridge Ware collection, we are delighted to offer this Victorian Coromandel Tunbridge Ware Tea Caddy. The Tea Ca...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Victorian Boxes
Materials
Wood
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