Boxes

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A late 18th century German fruitwood tea caddy in the form of an urn, with faint traces of the original porphery decoration and retaining remains of the original lead foil lining. This rare caddy is from the same origins as the more familiar fruit shaped examples, i.e. melons, pears or apples.

Urn Tea Caddy

show details 		Late 18th century cut glass and silver metal mounted tea-caddy with an integral lock with key. Dutch circa 1800.

Dutch Glass Tea Caddy

show details 		A 'Cloisonne' tea caddy the design attributed to Christopher Dresser, manufactured by Minton & Co. circa 1870 and in exceptional condition.

Dresser Tea Caddy

show details 		This Chinese tea box has been adapted to comply with the western form of the teacaddy. Originally it would have had several divisions and held a pewter canister in each containing a variety of the tea available to a western merchant. (See

Burrwood & Paktong Teacaddy

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Chinese Export black and gold lacquer teacaddy with scenes of dignitaries and courtesans in palace grounds, a pair of engraved and lidded pewter containers within and standing on four carved and gilded dragon form feet. Chinese circa 1830.

Export Lacquer Teacdaddy

show details 		A fruit wood snuffbox in the form of a shoe with chip carved designs and inlaid with a bone diamond and a heart to the toe. French early 19th century.

French Snuff Shoe

show details 		An early 19th century silver coloured metal snuuf box set in a section of stag antler, probably Scottish.

Antler Snuff Box

show details 		A finely carved ebony (ex)workbox, the tray of many compartments now absent. To the inside of the lid is inlaid an engraved and polychromed ivory profile of a Jesuit priest, and a lock marked 'Chubb's Patent, 57 St Paul's Crypt, London. Chubbs Patent. Makers to Her Majesty the Queen' and numbered 511374. Galle District, Ceylon, circa 1850.

Ebony Box

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A good example of a mid Victorian

Trinity House Sewing Box

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American Yacht

show details 		Mid 18th century, sandalwood lined, ivory veneered box with silver coloured metal hinges, lock and escutcheon, the inside with a small division running front to back at one side and with a small drawer beneath the same.Vizagapatam, India, c.1740. Vizagapatam on the northern Coromandel coast is a natural harbour midway between Calcutta and Madras. The British East India Company had a trading station there from 1668 and by 1756 the whole area had come under British control. From the late 17th century a tradition grew in Vizagapatam for the manufacture of objects and furniture of Western form, decorated in a distinctive manner, all being inlaid or veneered with ivory etched with black lac. The decoration was drawn from Mogul culture, brilliantly adapted to appeal to western taste. A visitor there in 1756, Major John Corneille, recorded that Vizagapatam was ‘famous for its inlay work, and justly, for they do it to the greatest perfection’.

Vizagapatam Box

show details 		An early 19th century single compartment teacaddy in ebony and scarlet tortoiseshell with finely inlaid ivory detail. Original interior lid with further finely detailed ivory inlay to match that on the outside. A silver metal label inlaid to the top engraved

Dutch Teacaddy

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A fine fat pear shaped pearwood teacaddy. Steel fittings. Excellent and original condition throughout. German circa 1790.

Georgian Fruitwood Teacaddy

show details 		Victorian oak humidor with hallmarked silver escutcheon to the bramah lock, London 1907, and with a crest and engraved motto to the lid,

"Jour De Ma Vie"

show details 		A sandalwood sewing basket, the exterior veneered with ivory, engraved and highlighted with lac. Vizagapatm circa 1860

Sewing Basket

show details 		A sewing box, made of ebony and extensively carved with buildiings amongst foliage and set upon four silver-plated cast brass feet, the mirrorred lid lifting to reveal numerous lidded compartments and several turned ivory winders. Bombay, Surat, circa 1870.

Ebony Sewing Box

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Portable desk, sandalwood covered with strips of elk horn with buffalo horn and engraved ivory edging within, retaining the original velvet writing surface. Indian, Vizagapatam, circa 1860.

Portable Writing Desk

show details 		A Victorian teacaddy of sarcophagus form, the front panel inlaid with a scene of the Nore lightship; the lid with a design of flags of our allies at the time. The Nore is a sandbank at the mouth of the Thames estuary near Sheerness. Veneered in burr walnut, bird's eye maple and rosewood. English circa 1880.

Nore Light Ship Tea Caddy

show details 		Late 18th century satin-birch teacaddy with an unusual marquetry cartouche of a running dog to the lid, a more typical but well defined shell motif inlaid to the front. English circa 1790.

Running Dog Teacaddy

show details 		A large Scandinavian bent birchwood lidded box with typical pokerwork decoration, circa mid 19th century.

Bentwood Pokerwork Box.

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A Regency period lapdesk the exterior covered in metal with a rare lacquer finish and edged with stamped and gold lacquered brass strips. The interior is veneered in kingwood with the originhal plush velvet writing surface. Excellent and original condition throughout.

Regency Lap-Desk

show details 		A leather bound oak lined stationery box from Brede Place, East Sussex. The 19th-century owner of Brede Place was Moretown Frewin who married one of the daughters of Mr Leonard Jerome of New York. Mrs Frewin's sister, Jenny, became Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Sir Winston. In 1899, the Frewins let the house to the American writer Stephen Crane and his wife Cora. An invitation to Brede Place became a must in the literary world and the Cranes entertained the greatest writers of the day. Henry James, Joseph Conrad, H.G.Wells, A.E.W.Mason, Rudyard Kipling and J.M.Barrie all stayed at Brede Place at one time or another. It was during one of these visits that J.M.Barrie first heard the story which, years later, he was to use to help him to create one of the greatest characters of Children's Literature - Captain Hook........

Brede Place

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Brass Pinned Snuff-Shoe

show details 		A fine and extensive early Victorian teaching aid, the bone tablets engraved with the letters upper case to one side, lower case to the other, and within a finely constructed mahogany box, the sliding lid with an inlaid and engraved plate, 'SPELLING Alphabet'. English circa 1840.

Alphabet

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An early 19th century brass snuff box well constructed from a heavy gage of brass and finely engraved with a charming scene of a hunter and his dog, a banner with the warning

"Take Heed Die"

show details 		A large and fine blonde tortoiseshell tea caddy with ivory stringing, the two interior compartments with matching tortoiseshell covers. The initialled silver coloured metal tablet to the lid engraved with initials and the date 1813.

Blonde Tea Caddy

show details 		A victorian honesty or honour tobacco box operated by a penny-in-the slot. The 'honour' required in order that you fill only a pipe bowl and not your pockets! Heavy sheet brass construction of the box and with well cast and finished fittings. For a similar good example see Sale 5369 Christie's Interiors - Oak Edition 4 November 2008 London, South Kensington Lot no.31

Honour Box

show details 		A late nineteenth century seasoning box stamped by the supplier 'Jones Bros Down Street, Picaddilly, London'. Used for containing all kinds of herbs, peppers etc. A number of them were positioned on the cook's work station so he could easily get a pinch of whatever flavouring he needed. There is a very similar one in the kitchen of Harewood House near Leeds that has two cartouche brass labels on each of the lids -one says coarse salt, the other fine salt. This kind was also used for another culinary purpose. There was room under the liner for some crushed ice mixed with a little salt. This was used to keep thin strips of bacon fat called lardoons from getting too soft to use. They were threaded through lean meat with a tool called a larding pin and had to be firm. By semi-freezing them in this way they could be kept firm. They are impossible to use once they start to go soft and this is why there is a drainage grill in the seasoning box - it allowed the free flow of the refrigerant brine to pass from one compartment to the other. Our thanks to Ivan Day of Historic Food .com for his help in describing this article.

Jones Brothers Seasoning Box

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A mahogany and brass snuffbox, the top engraved '1852 W. THOMPSON LIVERPOOL', and the swivelling lid with a huntsman's dog and a pheasant in a tree. To the reverse is engrave a stem of roses.

A Hunter's Snuffbox

show details 		A pretty marquetry and parquetry tobacco box with striped sides and a fine marquetry shell inlaid into a green stained background, the base inlaid with a two-toned six point star, the interior with the remains of a metal foil lining. English, Georgian period, circa 1780. (Re-polished).

Sea Shell Tobacco Box

show details 		A silver and engraved mother-o-pearl tooth-pick box, probably Chinese Export circa 1790.

Tooth-Pick Box

show details 		Chinese Export black and gold lacquerware teacaddy in the form of a melon, standing on three carved and gilt wood winged dragon feet and with a typical engraved pewter canister within. Chinese circa 1840.

Export "Melon" Teacaddy

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A simple box from Srinigar, Kashmir, painted with the

Kashmir Box

show details 		Rosewood veneered tea caddy with nickel mounts all in the form of a travelling trunk. Original silvering and polished wood cover within. French circa 1870.

Tea Trunk

show details 		A fine penwork teacaddy with two separate lift out containers for the different tea-leaves. Excellent decoration throughout. English, Regency period, c.1800

Penwork Teacaddy

show details 		A rare and beautiful Georgian 'harlequin' tea caddy, tortoiseshell and mother-o-pearl diamond panels edged with ivory and set between tortoiseshell canted corners, the metal fittings of silver. English circa 1790.

Harlequin Tea Caddy

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Early 19th century lap desk; bleached elk horn on an interior of sandalwood with black horn edging. Indian, Vizagapatam. Circa 1830.

Elk Horn Lap Desk

show details 		An elegant carved mahogany snuff shoe the lid dated 1868 and to the left of the shoe the pins read G.F. Roser beneath a crown. More interestingly, the right hand side of the shoe is inlaid with a design of a billhook and a folding knife, and the toe has branches of leaves. Were the Rosers woodmen or gardeners?

G. F. Roser Snuff Shoe

show details 		A mid Victorian grained pine picnic tantalus containing four blown glass spirit bottles. English circa 1870.

Picnic Tantalus

show details 		A Chinese tea chest, penwork with painted reserves depicting typical Chinese scenes. These chests were simply packing cases for the precious tea being sent to England at the beginning of the 19th century.

Chinese Tea Chest

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A Victorian Fernware box, lined with a yellow studded and quilted green satin. English circa 1880.

Fernware Box

show details 		An 18th. century transfer printed enamel patch box with the motto

Patch Box

show details 		A fine tortoiseshell teacaddy by Lund of Fleet Street, edged with ivory and with bun feet in the same, a pair of lids of matching tortoiseshell cover the two compartments within. William Lund moved to premises in Fleet Street in 1840, and changed his label in 1876 when he was joined by his son.

Loaf of Bread Teacaddy

show details 		An unusual English

John Roser's Snuff Shoe

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A substantial and beautiful early Victorian dark tortoiseshell teacaddy, the lid lifting to reveal two lidded compartments veneered in tortoiseshell that matches the outside. All edges are veneered in ivory and the bun feet are made of the same. The interior lock plate is engraved

Tortoiseshell Teacaddy

show details 		A rare spice tower, white wood grain painted to simulate rosewood nad further sign written with the name of the spice. English, early 19th century.

Spice Tower

show details 		Is this a 19th century carved wood corn stook or is it an inverted African mortar? Carved from one piece of wood and now sculpturally weathered.

Corn Stook

show details 		An excellent example of a fruitwood teacaddy of the late 18th century. Turned fruitwood, presumably applewood, with the original steel hinge, escutcheon and key, retaining traces of the red stain 'flush' to imitate the colouring on an apple, and with the original turned wooden stork to the lid. German circa 1790.

Apple Teacaddy

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