Antique Boxes

A heavy solid silver box with hinged lid and eastern decoration.

The tops veneered in flame mahogany and inlaid with a fan open to reveal a fully fitted interior; crossbanded throughout with tulipwood and chequer...

The top retaining its original rococo swan neck handle is chequer strung and crossbanded as are the sides. With a secret spoon drawer and raised on...

Large Victorian mahogany casket with a makers label underneath – ‘John Taylor & Son Edin. Ltd, Cabinet Makers Edinburgh’ and product design n...

Circa 1860, mid Victorian walnut writing box/slope. The walnut case with its raised top and well carved sides, opens to reveal a walnut crossbanded...

A small and fine tortoiseshell enamel and silver table casket by Karl Röessler, the sloping top is surmounted by a silver and enamel figure of a l...

A 19th century Victorian Betjemmans Patent coromandel wood and Birdseye maple three bottle Tantalus. The tantalus is unusual in that it is a sm...

A SADELI AND IVORY GLOVE BOX Bombay Presidency Circa 1870. The rectangular glove box of wood and lined in sandalwood, with a hinged...

This exceptional box is finely and profusely inlaid. The central panel to the lid depicts Eridge Castle Sussex near Tunbridge Wells. The seat of ...

The high domed lid inlaid with a panel depicting Hever Castle within a border with stringing. The lid opens to two tea boxes with inlaid lids. ...

Sandalwood overlaid with ivory and tortoiseshell. The domed lid with ivory strap-work, pierced ivory panels engraved and highlighted with lac and s...

A fine quality box by Thomas Barton veneered in coromandel with floral and geometric panels and borders. The interior has the original pink watered...

Turned boxwood patch box with painted decoration and the top a view of Brighton Pavilion, probably from Tunbridge Wells. English, circa 1820 He...

A Victorian Mauchlinware money box in the form of a Pullman Parlour Car No.33, the top with a transfer printed view of New Beech Gardens Yarmouth.

Oblong, the base chased with elaborate foliage and acanthus on a matted ground, the sides with trailing foliage and at the front with MON REPOS., t...

Georgian rosewood writing slope, lovely small size with brass fleur de lis inlay. The interior with nib stand and further small compartments.

A fine mid 19th century dome topped tea caddy, opening to two further domed tea canisters marked G (green tea) and B (black tea) for the types of t...

The box of rectangular form with inset military type handles opens to an interior fitted probably to enclose decanters and perhaps some spirit gl...

Beautifully inlayed with scrolling brass work and raised on bun feet.

A Delightful 18th Century Toleware Tea Caddy Having Attractive Red Chinoiserie Decoration And Original Axe Drop Handle

A Delightful Early 19th Century Octagonal Burr Yew Tea Caddy Having Boxwood Strung Decoration

Pair of George III mahogany knife boxes, lovely flame figure and good colour, now converted with four divisions in each. Sloping lid over a serpent...

A nice quality Edwardian oval silver Pill or Snuff Box, the lid formed from polished Agate. Silver gilt interior. By Louis Willmott, London, 1907.

A rare George V silver combined twin-compartment Stamp Case and Card Case, of rectangular envelope form with hinged lid, the reverse with twin comp...

A very high quality miniature chest of two short and three long graduated drawers, the top in kingwood, rosewood drawers and tulipwood banding. Th...

A wulnut Tunbridge ware Book Slide decorated with cube-work panels within floral bands, edged in rosewood. Extends from 16 inches to 26 inches wide

An early 19th century burr yew woo Needlework Box with domed lid and shaped sides. The interior lined with the original blue paper.

A fine and rare George III rolled paper Tea Caddy of hexagonal form framed in kingwood banding and with glazed panel to the front enclosing an embr...

A good 18th century small mahogany oval Tea Caddy inlaid with Conch shell to the top and a paterae to the front. Good original condition

A fine quality oval mahogany tea caddy inlaid with marquetry panels depicting a basket of fruit and a pear tree.

The cover set with an enamel on copper panel depicting a young woman in a pink dress receiving a miniature of a suitor whilst seated at a table bel...

Of rectangular outline with rounded corners, the cover chased with a classical urn filled with flowers and fruit flanked by formal acanthus scrolls...

President Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) thought highly of such dispatch boxes, which he referred to as "polygraph" desk copying presses.

Rare mid 19th Century Anglo-Colonial tortoiseshell and ivory banded writing box with silver handles, escutcheons and hasp, having a lidded compartm...

An exotic and extremely rare late 19th century portable writing desk, constructed from sandalwood, ivory, silver and buffalo horn, with ivory anima...

A George III mahogany and brass marquetry travelling box on stand, the hinged lid with central inset plaque inscribed 'Maria', the lid opening to a...

A beautiful Anglo-Indian ivory Vizagapatam sarcophagus shaped sewing box, the top with a sunburst section with a horn and incised ivory finial, all...

A superb coromandel sewing box by Austin of Dublin, beautifully inlaid to both the top and all four sides in brass, mother of pearl and abalone, wi...

A truly stunning mid 19th Century coromandel sewing box by Hausburg’s of Liverpool, the top and front are beautifully inlaid in brass, pewter and...

A small early 19th Century mahogany medicine cabinet, the twin doors opening to reveal an arrangement of bottles, some with labels for A.B. Sparrow...

A very rare Regency medicine cabinet in well figured mahogany profusely inlaid in brass and marquetry, with recessed brass handles to the top and a...

An early George III serpentine fronted mahogany cutlery box of fine figure and colour, retaining all its original brassware, including a pair of si...

A fine pair of George III figured mahogany knife boxes with chequered stringing and tulipwood banding, the sloping hinged lids decorated with an in...

Pair of George III mahogany cutlery boxes, cross banded in tulipwood, the lids inlaid with shell paterae, the serpentine fronts with moulded pilast...

A superb Japanese lacquer box for writing paper from the Meiji period, the wooden box is lacquered in takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, takazogan with applie...