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Regency Antique Leather Sewing Box, 19th Century
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
small letter compartment. This box comes with a fully working lock and tasseled key. The lock is
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Early 19th Century British Antique Letter Box

Materials

Brass

Coromandel Jewellery Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Antique Coromandel Jewelry box with mother-of-pearl initial plate and escutcheon. The interior
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Late 19th Century British Antique Letter Box

Oak Walnut Carved Post Box, England, Late 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
Oak and Walnut Hexagonal Post Box with Letter Slot over Center Door Flanked by Two Glass Windows
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19th Century English Antique Letter Box

Materials

Oak, Walnut

Antique Coromandel Jewellery Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
backed letter compartment. This jewellery box with a fully working lock and tasselled key
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1860s Great Britain (UK) Antique Letter Box

Antique Coromandel Jewellery Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
leather letter compartment. This jewellery box features two hidden sprung drawers. The front drawer
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19th Century British Antique Letter Box

Oak Edwardian Period Country House/Hotel Post Box
Located in Darwen, GB
with a brass letter box and a door to the right hand side. Supported on an angular shaped plinth
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Early 1900s Edwardian Antique Letter Box

Materials

Oak

Antique Burr Walnut and Coromandel Jewellery Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Antique Burr Walnut Jewellery Box with figured coromandel banding, brass edging, shield initial
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19th Century British Antique Letter Box

Materials

Walnut

Rosewood Brass Bound Jewelry Box with Campaign Carry Handles, 19th Century
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
which houses a fold down leather letter compartment. The box is lined in a blue silk paper with blue
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19th Century British Victorian Antique Letter Box

Materials

Brass

Davenport Desk
Located in Austin, TX
Victorian Davenport desk with covered letter box and slant lid enclosing an interior with 3 small
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19th Century English Antique Letter Box

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Walnut

Vintage French Bifold Garden Gate Decorative Salvage
Located in Hartlepool, GB
Vintage French bifold garden gate decorative salvage with original paint and a neat little letter
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Early 20th Century French French Provincial Antique Letter Box

Early 20th Century Pinkerton Detective Agency Desk Set
Located in North Hollywood, CA
set consists of a solid letter opener, and a cigarette box. True to the credo to protect you on land
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1920s American Art Nouveau Antique Letter Box

Materials

Sterling Silver

Georgian Tunbridge Ware Wooden Desk
Located in New York, NY
High-quality Georgian tunbridge ware wooden desk with 2 inkwells, letter holder, and stationery
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19th Century English Antique Letter Box

Materials

Wood

Bamboo Drop-Front Desk, England, c. 1875
Located in New York, NY
; Interior Fitted with Leather-Covered Writing Surface, Letter Boxes and Small Bracket-Shelves. England, c
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19th Century English Antique Letter Box

Materials

Bamboo, Leather

Georgian Revival Transforming Desk and Games Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
suede inset surface. When games surface is folded, the piece reveals a spring-mounted interior letter
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Early 20th Century European Georgian Antique Letter Box

Materials

Suede, Wood

Red Tortoiseshell Boulle Stationery Box Photo Frame by Hallstaff Hannaford
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Tortoiseshell boulle desk set by Halstaff & Hannaford comprising a letter box and picture frame
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19th Century British Victorian Antique Letter Box

Materials

Brass

Royal Horse Guard Cigar Sentry Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
the British Army. The larger Sentry Letter box compliments this item. It is not part of the sale
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Early 20th Century British Antique Letter Box

Mahogany Victorian Tunbridge Ware Stationery Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
several letter compartments. This tunbridge stationery box comes with a fully working lock and tasselled
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19th Century British Victorian Antique Letter Box

Materials

Mahogany

Bronze Desk Set by Margo Kemp, German Circa 1925
Located in Hoboken, NJ
Bronze desk set including inkstand, letter opener, box seal, round inkwell, two blotters by Margo
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Early 20th Century German Antique Letter Box

Early 20th Century Malachite Inkwell Set
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
, brass candle holder on malachite base, hexagonal malachite box and letter opener. All on a base
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Early 20th Century Antique Letter Box

Materials

Malachite, Brass

1920s Letterpress Printers Cabinet with Types
Located in London, GB
manually compiling words letter by letter using small metal letter types. This box would then be inserted
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Early 20th Century British Industrial Antique Letter Box

Materials

Metal

Pair of Antique Campaign Chest Trunk Mahogany George III 19th Century
Located in Longdon, Tewkesbury
with campaign handles to either side, lift up lid with deep storage capacity with candle box and letter
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19th Century Victorian Antique Letter Box

Materials

Mahogany

Black Lacquered Letter Box
Located in New York, NY
Black lacquered letter box with hinged top.
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19th Century Antique Letter Box

Coromandel Brass Bound Letter Box
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
An English mid-19th century Gothic style letter box of coromandel wood with intricately worked
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1850s English Gothic Revival Antique Letter Box

Mechanical Campaign Style Lap Desk and Letter Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A truly rare, substantial, and ingenious form. The letter box opens to reveal compartments: 2
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19th Century English Campaign Antique Letter Box

Materials

Brass

Antique Victorian Jennens Bettridge Paper Mache Letter Box
Located in Seguin, TX
Antique English Victorian Jennens & Bettridge paper mache letter box. Hand painted roses, passion
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Late 19th Century Antique Letter Box

Materials

Paper

Silver Plated Letter Box
Located in Torino, IT
19th Century silver plated letter box,beautiful piece . Rare to find.
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1850s Italian Antique Letter Box

Materials

Silver Plate

Leather and Nail Head Decorated Letter Box from Spain
Located in Stamford, CT
Leather letter box decorated with nail head trim and key, circa 1920s. Interior fitted with green
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1920s Spanish Antique Letter Box

Materials

Metal

Arts Crafts Letter Box
Located in Janvry, Essonne
An arts and crafts enamel, copper and brass letter box with embossed stylised arts and crafts
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Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Letter Box

Materials

Brass, Enamel, Copper

Art Deco Large Scale Letter Box
Located in 3 Oaks, MI
Graphic Art Deco large-scale aluminium letter box "Letters US Mail Cutler Letter Box ".
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1920s American Art Deco Antique Letter Box

Materials

Aluminum

Slant Front English Letter Box
Located in Stamford, CT
Slant front knife box composed of mahogany veneer on oak, circa 1790s. The piece was repurposed as
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18th Century English Hepplewhite Antique Letter Box

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Mahogany, Oak

Beautiful Victorian Mahogany Glass and Brass Letter Box, c. 1890
Located in Heathfield, GB
A rarely seen original Victorian letter box of excellent quality. Glass fronted, with brass slots
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19th Century Victorian Antique Letter Box

Materials

Brass

Early 20th Century Tooled Leather Letter Box
Located in Cookeville, TN
This is a lovely early 20th-century letter box. The box features a hand-tooled leather exterior
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Early 20th Century Italian Art Deco Antique Letter Box

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Leather, Fabric, Paper

19th Century English Country House Victorian Letter Box
Located in Essex, MA
A charming and finely made English Victorian country house Royal Mail letter box of typical pillar
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1880s English Antique Letter Box

Materials

Brass

Antique Victorian Walnut, Brass Letter Box, Stationary Box, Scotland 1870, 1904
Located in Vancouver, BC
Antique Victorian walnut, brass letter box, stationary box, Scotland, 1870, 1904 Scotland
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1870s Scottish Antique Letter Box

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Walnut

Fine Sportsman s Inkstand / Letter Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Gilt metal appointed with hunting dogs, one holding waterfowl in his mouth, the other prowling. The inkwell lid is adorned with a boar. Maid by Meridan, Connecticut in the 1890s.
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Late 19th Century American Antique Letter Box

Materials

Metal

Brown and Red Lacquer Letter Box
Located in New York, NY
A brown and red lacquer box with design of hawk, pine tree and river.
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Letter Box

Materials

Wood

Bronze Dore Letter Box with Agates and Rope Design
Located in Chicago, IL
This is a very interesting and handsome box. It has an applied rope design and striped agate
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Early 20th Century European Antique Letter Box

Materials

Agate, Ormolu

French Embossed Leather Stationery Box by Dreyfous, Early 20th Century
By DREYFOUS, PARIS (worked from 1910)
Located in Wells, ME
French embossed leather stationery or letter box with slanting lid and serpentine shaped base is
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Early 20th Century French Other Antique Letter Box

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Cowhide

Vintage Natural Wicker Desk
By Heywood-Wakefield Co.
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A superb example fitted with a "Letter box" top and 3 drawers. Possibly Heywood-Wakefield. Desk
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Early 20th Century American Antique Letter Box

Materials

Wicker, Wood

Antique Coromandel Brass Bound Velvet Lined Jewelry Box, 19th Century
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
leather letter compartment. The box is lined in a blue cotton cotton velvet, it has a removable jewellery
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Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Letter Box

Materials

Brass

Modernist Letter Holder, De Stijl, Designed by Architect Huib Hoste
By Huib Hoste
Located in Amstelveen, NL
of thinking and designing. During the 1920s he stylistically became a modernist. This letter box is a
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Early 20th Century Belgian De Stijl Antique Letter Box

Materials

Wood

Victorian Era Brass Semicircle Canister
Located in Seattle, WA
sit on the bathroom vanity, kitchen counter, or a letter box for a desk.
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1890s American Antique Letter Box

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Brass, Copper

Rare Miniature Oak Post Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
introduction of street letter boxes in the UK in 1853, a letter would be posted by taking it to a receiving
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19th Century British Antique Letter Box

Materials

Brass

Tiffany Co. Studios New York Seven-Piece Bronze Desk Set, Early 20th Century
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Liverpool, GB
decorated with the Grape-vine pattern consists of a desk pad, letter box, pen stand, small letter scale
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Antique Letter Box

Materials

Bronze

Superb Brass Bound Burr Walnut Antique Letter Writing Box
Located in Antrim, GB
Stunning brass bound burr walnut antique letter writing box Complete with ink wells, wax seal
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1870s Victorian Antique Letter Box

Materials

Walnut

Fantastic and Complete Sterling Desk Set by Marshall Fields, circa 1900
Located in Redding, CA
This fantastic set complete with "Bookends," calendar, inkwell on stand, pen tray, stamp box
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Early 1900s Antique Letter Box

Materials

Sterling Silver

Tiffany Co. Section of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, circa 1858
By Tiffany Co.
Located in Concord, MA
souvenir for 50 cents each. This example does not include the original box or facsimile letter from C.W
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1850s American Industrial Antique Letter Box

Materials

Brass

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Antique Letter Box For Sale on 1stDibs

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the antique letter box you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Each antique letter box for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, metal and brass. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect antique letter box — we have versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. Each antique letter box bearing Victorian, Art Nouveau or Georgian hallmarks is very popular. Many designers have produced at least one well-made antique letter box over the years, but those crafted by Army Navy CSL, Grey Co, Birmingham and J.C. Vickery are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is a Antique Letter Box?

The average selling price for an antique letter box at 1stDibs is $1,287, while they’re typically $149 on the low end and $22,850 for the highest priced.
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