A boxed Wells & Lambe writing suite, circa 1850, Manufacturers to the Queen, the leather bound box with central lift out tray containing various ivory handled writing utensils and below further storage compartments for wax and nibs, flanked to each side by a leather bound miniature box labelled ink and light respectively, 24 cm wide. Illustrated in Cummins, Dr G., Antique Boxes: Inside and Out, Antique Collector's Club, Suffolk, colour plate 688, p. 377.