Very decorative Burmese tea tin

The bombe shape of this small tea canister is made of silver plate and covered with faux tortoiseshell. The domed lid is topped with a ball knop and the piece sits on four silver pla...

This good quality ladies table compendium houses a number functions that a lady would need during the day. Under the hinged lid is a sewing box with compa...

This lovely hand painted and gilded papier mache aide memoire would have certainly caught the eye when taken from the ladies purse or handbag. The decorat...

This well made wooden box was made in the Harderwijk internment camp in the Netherlands during WW1. All four sides carry a veneer of the tumbling blocks design, while the front, the back and the lid are also adorned with an inlaid rosette. The top and bottom of the box is cockbeaded to give a little more interest to the piece, and it stands on four bracket feet. The inside of the lid also carries an inlaid geometric pattern. Inside this pattern is a pen and ink signature, and the chip carved inscription, in French, "A Ma Filleule Harderwyk 1914 15 16 - this translates as "To my goddaughter, Harderwyk", with this spelling of Harderwijk possibly being a French speaker...

The front of this book shaped card case features an engraved, thin silver mount on green watered silk in a silver frame. The spine is dark green velvet. T...

This lovely Georgian ladies toothpick case is an elongated oval in form known as a navette, and is made of a silver frame holding mother-of-pearl panels...

1960's tin tea caddy covered in traditional Japanese woven gold fabric with floral motif. There are two lids, inner and outer to keep tea leaves fresh.

Late 19th century chinoiserie tea tin from England.

19th century toleware grocer’s shop tea tin, A beautiful decorative Grocers Tea Canister, it would have been filled with Tea for sale, it has a very attractive style. The lid is...

Set of 4 antique tea utensils from France. Made of tin.

VERY DECORATIVE VIZAGAPATAM BOX Vizagapatam, India, 19th Century. Rustic workmanship will only add to the decorative appeal of this Anglo-Indian footed domed casket in ebonized woo...

This is an antique decorative biscuit tin. An English, printed shop retail container for Gray Dunn and Co, dating to the Edwardian period, circa 1910. F...