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Boxes — Writing, Sewing, etc. - Small Wooden Items - Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers
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| Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers | |
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| Number of lots recorded: | 36 |
| Lots with images: | 36 |
| Prices available: | 36 |
Category:
Boxes - Writing, Sewing, etc.
| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
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| *** | A relief carved bone panelled casket, with patterns and borders of primitive maskheads in low relief and raised on scroll feet, 22.5 cm high, 23 cm wide, 14.5 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Victorian coromandel and brass bound writing box, mid 19th century, in the Gothic manner, with engraved and coloured brass strapping, the interior with a velvet writing slope, compartments and ink bottles, 10.5 cm high, 35.5 cm wide, 26 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A English oak and brass safe or strongbox, Harris & Sheldon, Stafford Street, Birmingham, early 20th century, the architectural style strongbox with a diamond point crest, dentil border and Arts & Crafts style cast brass doors, with key, 60 cm high, 37 cm… | *** |  |
| *** | A French rosewood and boulle writing box, mark of Bassy a Pau, 19th century, the hinged top decorated with tortoiseshell and brass inlay in the Berainesque manner, containing bottles and pen compartment, the fall front with a tooled leather surface and an… | *** |  |
| *** | A Regency brass bound writing box, the hinged top opening to fitted interior with an embossed maroon writing slope, engraved initials 'Jr' to the brass top plate, 19 cm high, 45 cm wide, 24 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | Two George III mahogany cutlery boxes, late 18th century, of typical shaped form both with cross banding and patterned edges, one with a Sheraton style boxwood rosette, one box vacant, one box including cutlery, largest 38 cm high, 22 cm wide, 22 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A Victorian Gothic Revival brass bound walnut sewing box 16 cm high, 30 cm wide, 23 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A George III painted satinwood writing box, circa 1800 16 cm high, 46 cm wide, 25 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A Regency mother-of-pearl inlaid rosewood sewing box, circa 1820, delicately inlaid with mother of pearl foliate designs, with brass ring handles and raised on lemon squeezer shaped feet, the partitioned interior lined with blue moire and ruched silk and… | *** |  |
| *** | A painted Georgian mahogany cutlery box, 18th century, with an inlaid compass to the interior of the lid, converted into a letter compendium, 39 cm high, 23 cm wide, 30 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | An Egyptian revival polychrome decorated cyprus-wood box, French, 1899 decorated with hieroglyphs, scarabs and Egyptian motifs signed and dated S. Andre 1899 21 cm high, 34 cm wide,26 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A gilt tooled leather covered faux book box, the 'spine' concealing a drawer, 8 cm high 38 cm wide, 35 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A marquetry inlaid huon pine box, Tasmanian, inlaid with a eucalyptus leaf sprig and lined to the interior, 4.5 cm high, 32 cm wide, 21 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A three piece brass bound wood grain decorated stationary set, including a book slide, casket style stationery box with key and a blotter, 19 cm high, 25 cm wide, 13 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | An elm tea caddy, early 19th century, of plain casket form with a flat diamond point lid, with two interior lids, and key, 15 cm high, 20 cm wide, 11.5c, deep | *** |  |
| *** | A Moorish bone and mosaic inlaid antique casket, 15 cm high, 43.5 cm wide, 29 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A William IV brass bound mahogany writing slope, 19th century, 16 cm high, 51 cm wide, 26 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A Victorian walnut casket box, of waisted form with a flat top diamond lid and raised on squashed bun feet, relined with oyster moire taffeta, 20 cm high, 36 cm wide, 21 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | An Australian specimen wood inlaid document box, circa 1850, possibly Tasmanian origin, with an inlaid eight pointed star design with chevron stringing and rosewood, 11.5 cm high, 29.5 cm wide, 22.5 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A mother of pearl inlaid macassar sewing box, English 19th century 14 cm high, 29 cm wide, 23 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A carved tramp art box, circa 1880 13 cm high, 20 cm wide, 14 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A writing box fashioned as a faux leather bound volume, with a tooled surface and a partitioned interior with lift out tray, 9.5 cm high, 33 cm wide, 24 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | An Australian fiddle-back black wood document box, Federation period, circa 1910-1920, 11.5 cm high, 35 cm wide, 27 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | An Anglo-Indian brass bound mahogany writing box, 19th century, with brass studding, mounts and lock-plates, signed S. C. Dass, 23 cm high, 45 cm wide, 30 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A brass bound walnut stationary compendium,19th century in the form of a domed chest, the hinged cover opening to reveal various document apertures 16.5 cm high, 22.5 cm wide, 12 cm wide | *** |  |
| *** | Two large Victorian writing slopes, 19th century, a rosewood box with a shaped brass cartouche to the lid and escutcheon, and a brass bound and strapped walnut box, the largest 16 cm high, 50 cm wide, 27 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | An Australian specimen wood box 12 cm high, 20 cm wide, 16 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A mother-of-pearl and brass inlaid rosewood jewellery box, 19th century, with a dark green velvet lined interior, 13 cm high, 30 cm wide, 22 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A brass bound mahogany writing slope, English 19th century 13 cm high, 41 cm wide, 25 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A carved oak bible box, 18th century, 23 cm high, 64 cm long, 43 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of vintage brass ware, mid 20th century, comprising an Islamic style decorated tray, a beaten copper tray, an ornate Islamic style watering can, a mortar and pestle, a casket and three bells, one of figural form, the tray 35.5 cm diameter | *** |  |
| *** | A WMF secessionist style silver plate jewel casket, early 20th century, of serpentine rectangular form embellished with roses and foliage in relief, with a floral knop, dipped skirt and splayed corner feet, the interior silk lined, WMF mark to base, 16 cm… | *** |  |
| *** | An Australian kauri pine writing slope, 19th century, 19 cm high, 47.5 cm wide, 35 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A collection of Australian painted pokerwork, comprising a breadboard and knife, a nut bowl and hammer, a box, an ashtray and four doily holders, the box 9 cm high, 28 cm wide, 18 cm deep. | *** |  |
| *** | A small rosewood tea caddy, circa 1800, of casket form with a brass escutcheon and twin interior lids, 11.5 cm high, 19.5 cm wide, 12 cm deep | *** |  |
| *** | A marquetry overlay ivory and wood box, 5 cm high | *** |  |