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Boxes, Jewellery & Trinket (not wooden) — Precious Objects - Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers
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| Number of lots recorded: | 36 |
| Lots with images: | 36 |
| Prices available: | 36 |
Category:
Boxes, Jewellery & Trinket (not wooden)
| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
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| *** | An antique Florentine breche d'Alep marble casket, opening to a partitioned interior, with extended canted corners, the face with a central heart on a fielded panel with fleur-de-lis motifs, and raised on ball feet, 22 cm high, 30 cm wide, 17.5 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A gold pillbox, square form, of woven chevron design, 18ct gold, total weight 22.2gms. | *** |  |
| *** | A tortoiseshell box and cover Qing dynasty, 19th century of shallow circular form, the cover and base carved with landscape scenes within florette borders, 9.5 cm diameter | *** |  |
| *** | A bronze arc de Triomphe Grand Tour trinket box, 19th century, realistically modelled with bronzed sculptures and chains, a velvet lined hinged compartment, standing on an oval onyx base, 15 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A French gold pencil, a gold thimble and a gold pill box, the pencil with an embossed figural sheath in 18ct gold, signed, a 9ct gold thimble in the original hard case, and a small engine turned pill box in 18ct gold, total weight 28gms, the pencil 9 cm… | *** |  |
| *** | An Islamic sterling silver covered box, 20th century, the domed cover repousse decorated with a wildcat attacking prey amidst stylised foliage and exotic birds on a lightly textured ground, formal engraved border to the lower register, hallmarked to… | *** |  |
| *** | A George V sterling silver mounted tortoiseshell box, Finnigans, New Bond Street, London 1913, of rectangular form with classical gadrooned borders, 8 cm high, 23 cm wide, 18 cm deep. Provenance: Romayne Munro (nee Hordern) of Point Piper and Milton park,… | *** |  |
| *** | A Battersea enamel box, English, 19th century of oval form, hinged cover, finely painted with a fisherman in a landscape scene reserved on deep blue ground 3 cm high, 8 cm wide, 5 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | Two Continental enamel boxes, 19th century each of circular form with a gilt metal mounted hinged cover, decorated with figures and landscape scenes 4.5 cm high, 10 cm diameter. Provenance: The Buller-Murphy Collection | *** |  |
| *** | A mother-of-pearl and brass inlaid jewel casket by Tahan, Paris, mid 19th century, on a rosewood base with a velvet interior and raised on petite brass bun feet, with the original key, marked Tahan Paris to the lock, 12 cm high, 24 cm wide, 18 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | An Anglo Indian Vizagapatam silver and ivory inlaid box, late 19th century, 6 cm high, 12.5 cm wide, 10 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Nouveau presentation musical jewellery box, with a domed top decorated throughout with etched waratahs and applied badges, initialed Hng and inscribed 3rd May 1913-1934, 20 cm high, 25 cm wide, 22 cm deep. Other Notes: Heather Nancye Gordon was… | *** |  |
| *** | A Regency mother-of-pearl inlaid tortoiseshell sewing box, circa 1820, the floral inlaid domed box with white metal stringing, ivory lips and edges, with a range of mother-of-pearl and ivory sewing accessories including spools and petite implements in a… | *** |  |
| *** | A Continental carved ivory and enamel box, probably Austrian, early 19th century of circular form decorated with a scene children and cherubs in a landscape scene, the cover finely carved with a seated goddess and a cherub in front of a mirror 7 cm… | *** |  |
| *** | A small leather bound and studded jewel casket, French, 21 cm high, 48 cm wide, 28 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | An English sterling silver purse and a pin box, 19th century and later, the leather lined silver purse made by E. F. Braham, Birmingham, 1893; the sterling silver box with engine turned decoration, possibly cork & Apthorp, London,1926, the purse 8.5 cm… | *** |  |
| *** | A gilt metal mounted tortoiseshell jewellery box, 19th century in the form of a domed chest with caryatid pilasters and paw feet 14 cm high, 22 cm wide, 12 cm wide | *** |  |
| *** | An Art Deco alabaster and coral box by Hardy Brothers Ltd, England, the coral finely carved and inlaid in a geometric design, with gilt washed hinge, 6 cm high, 13 cm wide, 10 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A Halcyon Days enamel koala figure box, the box set with a koala and cub with an inscription to the base, silk lined presentation box, 6.5 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A George III silver gilt pillbox, rectangular hinged form, with chased and engraved decoration, hallmarked London 1817, total weight 74.65gms., 4 x 5.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A tortoiseshell dome top box, and a miniature case, 19th century, of octagonal profile with bone edges and a lidded interior, later velvet lined, together with a simulated tortoiseshell hinged case, 8 cm high, 10.5 cm wide, 7.5 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | An engine turned decorated gilt metal box, French, early 19th century, 2.5 cm high, 7 cm diameter | *** |  |
| *** | A Victorian mother-of-pearl inlaid papier mache writing slope and a jewel casket, mid 19th century, the writing slop inlaid with pearl, paua shell and bone inlay with gilt enrichments, the with a leather writing slope and compartments, the other box with… | *** |  |
| *** | A French gilt bronze mounted glass jewel box, late 19th century, together with a rolled gold stone set propelling pencil, the box 11 cm high, 15 cm wide, 12 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A gilt brass mounted tortoiseshell trinket box, possibly French, 19th century, of oval form, with repeated bead and ring motifs to the body and edges, 10.5 cm high, 21 cm wide, 9 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A Swiss piano key ivory musical jewel box, 19th century, 9.5 cm high, 20.5 cm wide, 15 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A mother-of-pearl inlaid coromandel box, circa 1835, of casket form with a flat top diamond lid, finely inlaid with formal mother-of-pearl vegetal motifs, with lion head handles to the short ends and raised on squashed bun feet, relined with oyster tone… | *** |  |
| *** | A carved Continental pine jewel box, early 20th century, surmounted with birds, 21 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A small underglaze blue and gilded square covered box decorated with a river bank scene 4 cm high | *** |  |
| *** | A Moroccan mother of pearl inlaid jewel box, 6 cm high, 30 cm wide, 20 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A lac burgaute box and a carved tortoiseshell box, the lac burgaute box 7 cm diameter | *** |  |
| *** | A French hand decorated porcelain trinket box with gilt bronze mounts, Paris, 19th/20th century, decorated with fancy birds on a branch within a cartouche upon a Royal Blue ground with profuse gilt enrichments, inscription to base, 10 cm long | *** |  |
| *** | A small pierced enamel trinket box, 2.3 cm high, 8.2 cm wide, 5.2 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A leather jewellery casket 6 cm high, 18 cm wide, 14 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A silver and lapis lazuli dressing table box | *** |  |
| *** | Glanville-Anson, Vanessa, Australia, b.1951, a sterling silver and ebony pill box, handcrafted, freeform elongated vessel, ovoid aperture revealing leather lined interior and finished with a carved ebony lid with applied silverwork. Total weight: 55.1gms. | *** |  |