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Antique Boxes in English Society
1760 -1900
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Visual Index of Sewing Boxes:
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Sewing Boxes
Tea Caddies
Writing boxes 		  

Regency Fully Fitted Sewing box with ivory tools circa 1820 by Wm Dobson London.

Antique Scottish Sewing box, with transfer decoration circa 1840.

Antique Chinese Export Lacquer Sewing box, circa 1840.

Antique Fitted Sewing Box in Coromandel Inlaid with Mother of Pearl circa 1845.

Antique Fully Fitted Sewing Box in Coromandel Ebony by Turrill of London, circa 1840.

Antique Burr Walnut  Domed-top Sewing box, circa 1875.

Rare Painted Sycamore Antique Sewing box, circa 1815.

Chinese Export Lacquer Sewing Box with Ivory tools Circa 1820

Chinese Export Lacquer Sewing Box decorated with scenes of oriental life circa 1850.

Fitted Chinese Export Lacquer Sewing Box decorated with Tea Cultivation Scenes, circa 1830.

Antique Rosewood Sewing box, circa 1850.

Rare Regency Rosewood and Penwork Box Circa 1810

Very Fine Early 19th C. Anglo Indian Ivory and Sadeli Mosaic Sewing Box. Circa 1820

Concave Shaped Box standing on Ball Feet with Brass Inlay Circa 1820

Antique Fitted Sewing Box in Rosewood inlaid with Mother of Pearl Circa 1830.

Antique Sewing Box in rosewood and bird's eye maple, circa 1830

Very Fine Early 19th C. Anglo Indian Ivory and Sadeli Mosaic Sewing Box. Circa 1820

A Rosewood and Mother of Pearl Sewing Box. Circa 1835

Important and Impressive Radiating Green Horn Vizagapatam Antique Fitted Sewing box, circa 1835.

Antique Papier Mâchè Fully Fitted Sewing box, circa 1840.

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