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Japanned Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Cream Chinoiserie Japanned Sewing Box with pressed brass side handles lion pad feet.
The lid
Category
18th Century and Earlier British Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Brass
$2,872
Jewel / Sewing Box
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th Century German sewing box inlaid with hearts
Category
19th Century German Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Wood, Paper, Fabric
$1,750
Penwork Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Unusual Penwork Sewing Box standing on bracket feet. Features a penwork panel to the top of palm
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
$2,193
Tunbridge Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Tunbridge Ware sewing box veneered in rosewood with a topographical view of a house. The rest of
Category
Mid-19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
$2,734
Antique Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
and boxwood, similar inlays surround each walnut panel around the front and sides of the sewing box
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Boxwood
$2,040
Anglo Indian Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Anglo Indian Vizagapatam Sewing Box made from solid sandal wood, with a very eye catching radiated
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
$4,729
Coromandel Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Antique Sewing Box veneered in exotic coromandel with exquisite fine brass and Mother of Pearl
Category
19th Century Great Britain (UK) Antique Sewing Boxes
$1,507
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box with a rare block of a girl playing with a kitten and a ball of string
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Charming Rosewood Tunbridge Ware Sewing box with inlaid perspective cubes on the top.
The
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Wood
Tunbridge Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Tunbridge Ware sewing box by Henry Hollamby with a view of Glena Cottage on the lid.
The
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Wood, Velvet
$1,062
Coromandel Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Coromandel sewing box by Mechi with Mother of Pearl escutcheons, fittings and perfume bottle
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Wood, Mother-of-Pearl, Velvet
$1,713
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box with a rare block of a girl playing with a kitten and a ball of string
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Japanned Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Japanned sewing box decorated with vibrant gold banding and naive chinoiserie scenes, standing on
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
$1,165
Penwork Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Wonderful example of a Painted Penwork Sewing Box, all applied on white wood sycamore box with a
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
$3,221
Regency Period Japanned Sewing Box
Located in Bradford on Avon, GB
Regency period Japanned sewing box.
The sewing box has naive decorations of landscape scenes and
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Tunbridge Ware sewing box possibly by George Wise, veneered in rosewood with striking inlaid
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Brass
Papier Mâché Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Papier mâché sewing box with beautiful painted flowers, gold leaf decoration and exotic parrot on
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
$1,507
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box depicting a oval print of "Selene" the Greek Goddess of the Moon riding
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Antique Rosewood Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Rosewood sewing box with exquisite inlaid designs of brass, pewter and Mother of Pearl.
The
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Tunbridge ware sewing box veneered in Masur birch with a view of Eridge Castle, with beautiful
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Regency Satinwood Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Outstanding quality regency sewing box veneered in rich satinwood with kingwood bandings all round
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
A fabulous Tunbridge ware sewing box veneered in rosewood with a butterfly. The rest of the box is
Category
Mid-19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
19th Century Chinoiserie Sewing Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
19th century chinoiserie sewing box.
Category
19th Century Chinoiserie Antique Sewing Boxes
Antique Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Sewing box veneered in Birdseye Maple with an inlaid rosewood floral pattern and Mother of pearl
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Wood, Silk, Mother-of-Pearl
$1,592
Kingwood Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Fabulous quality sewing box, with an arrangement of exquisite veneers of the highest quality. The
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Kingwood
$2,467
Lacquer Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Chinese lacquer Sewing Box decorated with gold floral patterns and chinoiserie figures on the front
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Sewing Boxes
$1,165
Regency Period Mahogany Sewing Box
Located in Peterborough, Northamptonshire
An elegant Regency period mahogany Sewing Box on swept reeded and hipped supports, the two edges
Category
19th Century English Regency Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
Regency Period Japanned Sewing Box
Located in Bradford on Avon, GB
The sewing box has naive decorations of landscape scenes and a figure on the top.
Category
1810s British Regency Antique Sewing Boxes
Sewing Box on Stand
Located in Alexandria, VA
This sewing box has a virtually-intact and complete original interior, including dividers, a pin
Category
19th Century English Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
Anglo-Indian Calamander Sewing Box
Located in Richmond, CA
Anglo-Indian sewing box made of rare calamander wood with scalloped edges. Inside has ivory, ebony
Category
19th Century Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Ivory, Ebony
Penwork Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Penwork Sewing box with various penwork pictures on each surface with the top one showing Nemean
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Wood
$1,336
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Early Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box with simulated painted Rosewood and print of Brighton's Royal
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
China Trade Papier Mache Footed Sewing Box
Located in Water Mill, NY
Beautifully made Papier Mache footed sewing box with fitted interior made for the China trade. The
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Sewing Boxes
Sewing Box 19th Century Lacquered French
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th century lacquered chinoiserie sewing box from France.
Missing feet.
Decorative accessory
Category
19th Century French Chinese Export Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Antique Mahogany Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Tunbridge ware sewing box veneered in mahogany with micro mosaic bands running around the box with
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Mahogany, Paper
Antique Sycamore Tunbridge Ware Cottage Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Tunbridge ware cottage sewing box made of solid sycamore. The cottage sewing box is painted more
Category
Early 19th Century British George III Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Sycamore
Sewing box
Located in New York, NY
Very nice mahogany sewing box on stand. Very adaptable for many uses. Nice next to a chair or couch
Category
19th Century Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Wood
$450
Antique Painted Belgium Spa Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Spa sewing box with exquisitely detailed painted scenes on each side of spa towns. These scenes
Category
18th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
Antique Miniature Regency Red Leather Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Miniature leather sewing box with a red leather exterior decorated with brass details, escutcheon
Category
19th Century British Georgian Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Brass
Papier Mache Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Fabulous unusually shaped Papier Mache Sewing Box by Spiers & Son of Oxford. Still retains its
Category
Late 19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
$3,632
Antique Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box, 19th Century
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Antique Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box veneered in mahogany with perspective cube diamond design on the
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Wood
Painted Folk Art Sycamore Tunbridge Cottage Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Painted Tunbridge ware cottage sewing box made of solid sycamore. The exterior is adorned with
Category
Early 19th Century Great Britain (UK) Georgian Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Sycamore
Star Pattern Specimen Wood Sewing Box, circa 1820
Located in Hudson, NY
Star Pattern Specimen Wood Sewing Box circa 1820
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century Wooden Sewing Box with Ship Inlaid
Located in Atlanta, GA
19th century wooden sewing box with ship inlaid.
Category
19th Century Antique Sewing Boxes
Rosewood Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Fabulous Rosewood Sewing Box exquisitely inlaid with Mother of pearl and depicts Victoria & Albert
Category
1840s British Antique Sewing Boxes
$3,701
Ambroyna Sewing Box Beautifully Decorated in Brass
Located in Wiltshire, GB
A profusely brass inlaid decorated Amboyna sewing box continental exceptional quality craftsmanship
Category
Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Amboyna
Victorian 1860 Papier-Mâché Sewing Box
Located in Windsor, Berkshire
A superb Victorian 1860 papier-mâché sewing box with a mother of pearl inlaid and hand painted
Category
1860s English Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Paper
Victorian 1860 Papier-Mâché Sewing Box
Located in Windsor, Berkshire
A superb Victorian 1860 papier-mâché sewing box with a mother of pearl inlaid and hand painted
Category
1860s English Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Paper
Anglo-Indian Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam sewing box made from solid sandalwood, with a very eye catching radiated
Category
19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
$4,729
Antique Satinwood Palais Royal Sewing Box 19th Century
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Antique satinwood Palais Royal sewing box with intricate boxwood stringing, cut steel ring handle
Category
19th Century British George IV Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Boxwood, Satinwood
Large 19th Century Anglo-Indian Bone Sewing Box
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
A large early-19th century sarcophagus shape Anglo-Indian bone and sadeli mosaic sewing box fitted
Category
1840s Indian Anglo Raj Antique Sewing Boxes
Boulle Engraved Brass French Antique Sewing Box, 19th Century
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Boulle sewing box with beautiful engraved inlaid brass. With red silk paper and velvet lined
Category
19th Century French Victorian Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Brass
Kingwood Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Kingwood Sewing Box of fabulous quality the arrangement of exquisite veneers chosen for the piece
Category
Mid-19th Century British Antique Sewing Boxes
$2,584
Sewing Box
Located in San Francisco, CA
18th Century Italian lacquered box with old red velvet pin cushion. (LDD670/10)
Category
18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Wood, Fabric
$950
Chinese Export Sewing Box
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th Century Chinese Export sewing box (ab)
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer, Bone
Large Walnut Sewing Box, Ebony and Boxwood Inlay
Located in Port Chester, NY
A dramatically grained walnut sewing box inlaid with ebony and boxwood. Nice mother-of pearl detail
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Boxwood, Ebony, Walnut
Chinese Lacquer Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Chinese lacquer sewing box decorated with finely detailed chinoiserie scenes, framed by floral
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Sewing Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
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Antique Sewing Boxes For Sale on 1stDibs
An assortment of antique sewing boxes is available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of wood, metal and brass, all antique sewing boxes available were constructed with great care. Antique sewing boxes have been made for many years, and versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century. Antique sewing boxes bearing Victorian or Regency hallmarks are very popular at 1stDibs. Many antique sewing boxes are appealing in their simplicity, but Palais Royal, Singer and A. Aucoc produced popular antique sewing boxes that are worth a look.
How Much are Antique Sewing Boxes?
The average selling price for at 1stDibs is $1,938, while they’re typically $25 on the low end and $70,000 highest priced.
Questions About Antique Sewing Boxes
- What is a sewing box called?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 3, 2023A sewing box can be called a sewing basket, a needle box or a needlepoint box. However, many people simply refer to the storage boxes for thread, needles and other sewing supplies as a sewing box. Shop a selection of sewing boxes on 1stDibs.
- What is a needlework box?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertFebruary 17, 2023A needlework box, or sewing box, is a storage box that has bins and compartments designed specifically for holding needles, threads and other accessories for sewing and needlepoint. Many manufacturers produce them out of wood, but some are fabric or plastic. Shop a selection of sewing boxes on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 22, 2021Antique ice boxes can be worth up to $2,000 - $3,000. Depending on its condition, an antique ice box can be a highly coveted item.
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