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Scrimshaw Ditty Box
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Pre 1900 item# 695646
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$750
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An elaborately filled ditty box for small objects, this mahogany box is inlaid with patterns in light wood, perhaps boxwood. There is a velvet-lined interior with an enclosed compartment in the lid for necklaces and chains. Four separate boxes are concealed under the main tray. American or English, Nineteenth Century, the box measures approximately eight inches by five inches by five inches and is in excellent original condition.
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18th Century Polychrome Watch Holder
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Pre 1800 item# 695604
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Practical and decorative, this item would store the imposing pocket watch of a gentleman and become a very decorative ornament for the mantlepiece. Italian, Eighteenth Century, of finely carved wood, it retains most of its original polychrome paint and gilding. Exclusive of the base added for stability and the branch of coral that graces its crest, the piece measures approximately 190-3/4 inches by 6-1/4 inches by 2-1/2 inches.
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Wooden Shoe Snuff Box With Lock
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Pre 1837 VR item# 446836
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$375
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In order to access the tobacco within, the snuff-taker must know the right moves unlock and disengage the cover. The box is carved in the shape of a long, elegant slipper, originally red and black, with a nice low heel and a relief carving of a stylized plant with flowers and “fruit” of two bizarre demons’ heads. In superb condition, it is of Continental manufacture, late Eighteenth or early Nineteenth and measures 5-1/4 inches long, 1-1/2 inches high and 1-5/8 inches wide.
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Wooden Shoe Snuff Box
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Pre 1837 VR item# 446834
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In the form of a Turkish slipper with a Louis XV heel, this plump little wooden snuff box has a hidden trick opening device that makes it necessary to perform two actions before the contents are available. Of a fine fruitwood, with the “lock” of mahogany and a locking plate of engraved copper, it is a Continental creation of the early Nineteenth Century, in excellent condition and around 3-3/4 inches long by 1-3/4 inches high by 1-1/2 inches wide.
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Horn Snuff Box In Book Form
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Pre 1900 item# 418544
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$550
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Sometimes the chic of an object lies not it its perfect preservation but rather in its marks of a well-used life. In its youth, this white-horn snuff box, formed to resemble a missal, was probably alive with brilliant enamels applied to the geometric designs engraved on its top and sides. Now it is smooth and worn like a piece of driftwood, the horn taking on the look of fossilized ivory. Approximately 3-3/4 inches by 2-1/2 inches by 7/8 of an inch deep, it is French and dated 1863 in Roman n ...click for details
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Brass-Bound Horn Snuff Box
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Pre 1900 item# 418483
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$325
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In unusually fine state of preservation, this handsome French country snuff box is formed of blond horn studded and bound with brass. Engraved with stylized designs of birds and flowers and highlighted with deep yellow stain and inlaid red enamel, this fine folk art piece dates from the mid-Nineteenth Century and measures approximately 4-1/8 inches by 2-3/4 inches and 7/8 of an inch deep. (For a charmingly time-worn example, see Trocadero item 418544.)
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Magnificent Large Mahogany Tea Caddy
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Pre 1837 VR item# 367887
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This impressive early nineteenth century tea caddy is fashioned in solid mahogany, the exposed surfaces of which display the rarest examples of Santo Domingo crotch-cut "plum-pudding" wood. There are two tea compartments inside, with an elegantly cut footed glass bowl between. The highly detailed carrying handle and key are original and there are stepped brass feet, hinges and and escutcheon. English, circa 1820, the caddy measures about 14 inches wide by seven inches tall and deep.
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