19th Century Knife Boxes

A 19th century set of twelve antique sterling silver 'Entremet' knives, the blades hallmarked with the 950/100 Minerva head stamp and offered in their original blue silk-lined presen...

Exquisite antique hand carved bone knife with intricate hunting scene design. European made, possibly south German circa 1700s to 1800s, though we are not completely certain. The bla...

Four with engraved mother of pearl handles, three with added nut picks, two with five hallmarks, several with names or monograms. Folding fruit knives fir...

Early 19th C Cutlery tray w/ Scallop Edges. Hand crafted. Good Condition.

This is an antique knife box. An English, mahogany 46 item cutlery storage canteen, dating to the Georgian period, circa 1800. Superb craftsmanship with beautiful figuring and usefu...

Rare pair of Japanese Nagasaki Export lacquered wood knife boxes with mother-of-pearl inlay of flowers and birds, now converted to letter boxes...

A Fine Pair of Brass Strung Mahogany Knife Urns with Armorials, Likely for the Wills Family of Landrake in Cornwall c.1800 These two urns are of unusually large scale and superb qua...

Antique box on stand with brass handle.

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English 9-carat yellow gold and mother of pearl handled butter knife, boxed, an addition to our diverse flatware collection. This exceptional antique Victorian 9-karat gold butter knife has a sabre style knife blade, with a broad incurved shaped form. The anterior face of the concave curved blade is ornamented with a segmented panel of impressive bright cut engraved foliate ornamentation, all on a matte background. The reverse surface of the blade is plain, apart from the feature hallmarks. This antique knife retains the original, fine and impressive carved mother of pearl handle...

A Georgian yew wood cutlery tray, rectangular with three divisions for cutlery and with a central brass carrying handle. The tray with fine dovetails. These trays were designed for ...

This pair have the typical shape of boxes from this period, with shaped serpentine front, sloped hinged lid, and boxwood and ebony lines. Each cover is inlaid with an oval patera and...

19th Century hand-carved bone alligator handled culinary carving set with a cutting knife, fork, and sharpener. This matching set features an alligator carved on each handle. Fr...

Finely painted. Excellent condition. Pedestal base is 8.5" x 8.5".

19th Century pair of mahogany and satinwood knife boxes with one later converted into a box for storing bottles and the other for storing drinking glasses. Featuring satinwood border...

This fine pair of Classic proportions have many marks of quality. The timber used on the sloped fronts has been carefully selected with figured grain conforming to the shape of the h...

Pair Antique English mahogany knife boxes, circa 1840.

Antique George III Georgian Mahogany & Satinwood Inlay Buffet Knife Box. Item features an antique shapely serpentine form, satinwood inlay, felt lined fitted interior, inlaid shell t...

A French wooden decorative box from the 19th century from the Maison 'Gellée Gainier' à la Boule d'Or, Paris, leather bound with brass braces, presenting a compartmented interior and...

Antique folding lady's fruit knife with mother-of-pearl handle and blade silver with marks traceable to John Yeomans Cowlishaw dated around 1865. John Yeomans Cowlishaw was born in...

Pair of American mahogany flanking Urn telescopic cutlery boxes with acorn finials, fluted medallion gallery, original interior cutlery slots, and resting on turned ringed circular s...

Ophthalmic steel surgery kit, signed J. Weiss & Son Ltd London and Dixey England, made in the end of XIX century circa, placed in its original wooden box covered with leather, red ve...

This fine detailed handcrafted walnut wood with fine detail cutout is in great as found condition. This carrier has fine cut nails and in great condition.

Pair of late 18th-early 19th century Georgian inlaid mahogany knife boxes. Great color and patina. Serpentine form.

A most unusual pair of knife boxes. Beautiful decoration.

A Victorian brass and steel knife sharper. Weight: 0.8 Kilos.

An English mahogany knife box from the first half of the 19th century, with serpentine front, checkered stringing and inlay. This exquisite English knife box presents a brass hinged ...

This Nutcracker is very old. It has been made in France in the 19th century. We can benefit of the beautiful Patina, of the wood and of the Bronze. Thee colors are Brown and gold.

A particularly fine pair of knife boxes with bands on the mahogany slanted hinged lids and shaped fronts. The interior with inlaid satinwood star motifs inside the lids, carved slots...

Superb set of 24 fruit, dessert, cheese, or hors d’oeuvre knives, crafted by Maison Cardeilhac, founded in 1804. This set, dating from the first half of the 19th century, showcases e...

A rare pair of Kyoto-Nagasaki style lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlaid knife urns Edo period, early 19th century Measures: Height 71 x diameter 30 cm ?Formed as urns with vertically lifting covers and elongated finials, revealing fitted green velvet lined interiors for knives, decorated overall with birds, flowering stems, faux-fluting and oval panels with landscapes. The square plinth is raised on four bracket feet. Inside the lifting cover of one of the urns are Japanese characters, supposedly indications of some code by the craftsman. A closely related knife urn, now in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (inv. E 73115), was acquired in Nagasaki by Captain Samuel Gardner Derby of the Margareth of Salem in 1801. Captain Gardner Derby traded in Nagasaki under charter from the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie), the Dutch East India Company. Between 1797 and 1814 Holland was occupied by the French and from 1811 until 1816 Java by the English. During these periods practically no Dutch shipping was possible between Holland and Batavia (Jakarta) or between Batavia (Jakarta) and Nagasaki. To maintain a minimum amount of shipping between Batavia (Jakarta) and Nagasaki, between 1797 and 1807, the VOC chartered mainly American ships. American captains and officers ordered and bought mainly lacquered furniture in an American-English style, completely different from what the Dutch up till then had ordered. The present knife urns were possibly also ordered and acquired by Captain Gardner Derby during his stay in Deshima/Nagasaki in 1801. Another similarly neoclassical shaped knife urn in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (inv. 1996.17) appears to be signed by woodworker Kiyotomo koreo tsukuru (Kiyomoto made this). The same name, together with an address in the Sanjo-Teramachi District of Kyoto, has been found inside a fragmentary urn in a private collection. This is an indication that European-style furniture was not only lacquered in Japan but made there as well. This undoubtedly is not only true for knife-urns, but all European- style furniture lacquered in Japan after circa 1800 was made by Japanese furniture makers...

With mahogany banding and checkerbanding throughout; with slanted, hinged lid opening to a fitted interior.

Early 19th Century George III pair of mahogany knife urns. Of square form with carved blind fretwork design. The domed and finialled tops lift to reveal fitt...

A very fine pair of mahogany inlaid knife boxes with a lavish, floral pattern embellished. Each box has a pencil-poster themed top originating from the vertical column beds popular i...

This cutlery case houses a 107-piece set, including sterling silver flatware by Atkin Brothers, Sheffield, and stainless steel knives by Bagshaw...