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19th Century Coromandel Wood Work Box with Inlaid Elephant Design
Located in Atlanta, GA
19th century Coromandel wood work box with inlaid elephant design
Elaborate interior with two
Category
19th Century Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Wood
English Mixed Wood Work Box
Located in San Francisco, CA
The rectangular hinged lid panel inlaid with mahogany, rosewood and walnut and centering a blank brass plaque, opening to a lift out tray divided with open and covered wells above a ...
Category
19th Century English Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Wood, Paper
English Mahogany and Satinwood Work Box
Located in San Francisco, CA
The hinged coffered lid opening to a divided lift out tray with open wells and crimson pin cushions at each corner above an Italian paper lined storage area, the interior of the lid ...
Category
19th Century English Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Wood, Fabric, Paper
Rare Sandalwood Work-Box Veneered with Satinwood in the Manner of Shedashboodoo
Located in Bradford on Avon, GB
Rare sandalwood work-box veneered with satinwood in the manner of Shedashboodoo.
Category
1850s Indian Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood, Satinwood
Buffalo Horn Work Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Anglo Indian Vizagapatam buffalo horn work box of exquisite small proportions, its splendid bombe
Category
Mid-19th Century Indian Antique Work Boxes
$1,028
Pair George III fitted Ladies Work Boxes
Located in Norwalk, CT
Quite rare as a pair these Harewood and satinwood boxes retain all there original fittings for the
Category
18th Century and Earlier English Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Harewood, Satinwood
George III Rosewood and Inlaid Work Box
Located in New York, NY
With birch and boxwood inlay and stringing, a swing handle and baize lined interior.
Category
18th Century and Earlier English Antique Work Boxes
Antique Ladies Compendium Containing Work Box, Writing Slope And Jewellery Drawers
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
inks.
The lid lifts to reveal matching colour envelope and ladies work box. The interior is fitted
Category
19th Century British Antique Work Boxes
Beautifully Figured, Mid-19th Century, Walnut Work Box
Located in Peterborough, Northamptonshire
A walnut workbox. Beautifully figured with complex edging. Retaining its original cast, gilt bronze lion paw feet.
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Amazing Antique English Work Box on Stand
Located in San Francisco, CA
A very beautiful and rare 19th century painted and gilt English work box on pedestal. The green
Category
19th Century English Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Wood, Paint
Arts and Crafts Work Box
Possibly Austrian
Located in Darlington, GB
An incredible arts and crafts work box, very much in the liberty style and manor. The scene and
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Vienna Secession Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Hardwood
Small Edwardian Mahogany Antique Work Box or Side Table
Located in Link 59 Business Park, Clitheroe
Small Edwardian mahogany antique work box or side table
This small Edwardian antique work box or
Category
Early 1900s European Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
William IV Inlaid Rosewood Work Box
Located in San Francisco, CA
Of tapering sarcophagus form, with a bead-and-reel molded stepped hinged top, opening to a removable tray above a shallow well, both lined in faux marble paper, raised on bun feet, t...
Category
19th Century English Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Wood, Mother-of-Pearl, Paper
Victorian Rosewood Sewing, Work Box with Mother of Pearl, circa 1860
Located in Wiltshire, GB
A superb early Victorian rosewood sewing/work box with mother of pearl inlay and all original
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Work Boxes
1840
S ENG. CONCAVE SIDE OTTOMAN WORK BOX
Located in Southampton, NY
19TH CENT BOX WITH SLEEK CONTEMPORARY LINES-- ORIGINALLY WAS USED TO STORE NEEDLEWORK THAT WAS
Category
19th Century English Antique Work Boxes
Victorian Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Rosewood Work Box
Located in San Francisco, CA
The hinged rectangular lid with mother-of-pearl string inlay and central oval medallion, opening to a shallow well, above a single frieze drawer with a button pull; lined in crimson ...
Category
19th Century English Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Wood, Fabric, Mother-of-Pearl
19th Century Rosewood Inlaid Work or Sewing Box
Located in Wiltshire, GB
19th century rosewood inlaid work box, complete with all of its original mother of pearl fittings
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Work Boxes
Regency Period Bombé Shaped Penwork Box
Located in Bradford on Avon, GB
The work box still carries its original gilt brass ring pull handles and stands on its original
Category
19th Century Great Britain (UK) Regency Antique Work Boxes
Anglo Indian Box
Located in San Francisco, CA
Anglo Indian work box mountd with engraved and stained bone.
Category
19th Century Indian Antique Work Boxes
$395
19th Century Horn Box
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Horn work box made for the English market
Category
19th Century Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Horn, Wood
$3,500
A Chinese Lacquered Box.
Located in New York, NY
A Chinese black and gold lacquered octagonal work box on gilt dragon feet with bone fittings.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Work Boxes
$4,800
Anglo-Indian Buffalo Horn Vizagapatam Box
Located in Natchez, MS
Anglo-Indian Buffalo Horn Vizagapatam work box made for the English Regency market.
Category
19th Century Anglo-Indian Antique Work Boxes
Rosewood Tunbridge Ware Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Rosewood Tunbridge Ware work box with a view of Bayham Abbey.
The interior is lined in green
Category
19th Century British Antique Work Boxes
Bombe Shape Penwork Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Penwork Bombe shape work box with pressed brass handles and ball feet.
The interior is lined
Category
19th Century British Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Brass
Rare 19th Century Inlaid Ceylonese Tortoise Box
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
worked box with draw.
Category
19th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
ANGLO-INDIAN BOX
Located in Chicago, IL
AN ELOBORATE, ANTIQUE ANGLO-INDIAN INLAID COROMANDLE WOOD WORK BOX
INTERIOR WITH RISING BANK
Category
19th Century Indian Antique Work Boxes
$2,900
Early 19th Century English Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
Early 19th Century English, Burl Elm Jewelry-Work Box
Category
19th Century British Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
Amboyna Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Amboyna work box inlaid with stars and triangles of exotic timber including Coromandel, Satinwood
Category
19th Century British Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Wood, Velvet, Amboyna
$792
Very Good Pictorial Inlaid Box, England, circa 1800
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Exceptional work box with ball feet and highly accomplished mixed wood inlay on top and all four
Category
19th Century English Antique Work Boxes
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
side of the lock, when removed releases the bottom drawer.
This Antique work Box comes with a fully
Category
19th Century British Antique Work Boxes
Coromandel Writing Box by John Turrill
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Bond Street, London was a famous maker of Dressing Cases, Writing Desks, Work Boxes and Leather
Category
19th Century British Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
19th Century Anglo Indian Elk Horn Box
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
silk probably used as a needle work box.
Made on the east coast of India in the town of Vizagapatam
Category
Early 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Antler
Regency Brass Bound Jewellery Box
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
165 - Antique jewellery or work box with flush fitting side handles and brass edging all round, the
Category
19th Century British Regency Antique Work Boxes
Antique Sewing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Walnut Work Box with a view of a Tea Clipper / Sailing Ship which is flying two flags one of which
Category
19th Century British Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Boxwood
$2,040
Rare 18th Century Painted Belgium Spa Box
Located in Windsor, Berkshire
very rare to find a pen work box in such good original condition.
It measures 20 by 15 and stands 7cm
Category
Late 18th Century Belgian Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Sycamore
French Miniature Cabin Trunk
Located in London, GB
lined compartments, probably made as a work box.
Category
Early 20th Century French Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Brass
Ceylonese Ivory Inlaid Box on Stand, circa 1820
Located in New York, NY
# S130 - Ceylonese corromandel wood rectangular work box (now raised on a latter conforming Stand
Category
19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Antique Work Boxes
Georgian Irish Writing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Fashionable Cabinets, Portable Writing Desks, Dressing boxes, Work boxes, Gardevines, Medicine Chests
Category
19th Century British Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Brass, Steel
Outstanding Mahogany Sewing Box
Located in Applyby Magna, Staffordshire
A top quality mahogany sewing box, standing on paw feet, with pierced effect box with carved tassle
Category
1880s Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
Early Painted Dough Box
Located in Sheffield, MA
Museum quality dough box in original untouched red paint, two-board removable top, early turnings
Category
18th Century and Earlier American Antique Work Boxes
$1,900
Antique Birch and Sycamore Painted Spa Sewing Box, 19th Century
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
reading ‘Table, work-boxes, writing-cases, cigar and needle-cases, knitting and glove-boxes, and various
Category
19th Century Belgian Victorian Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Birch, Sycamore
Georgian Writing Box By J.j.taylor
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Antique Writing Box made of solid Mahogany bound with square brass & steel screws, has two campaign
Category
19th Century British Antique Work Boxes
Georgian Writing Box by J.J.Taylor
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Manufacturer. 22 Lavements Moorfields London." An Assortment of Combs and Brushes, Work Boxes and Dressing
Category
19th Century British Antique Work Boxes
French Walnut Petrin or Dough Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
A Louis XV style French provincial dough box, known as a petrin, with a scalloped apron over
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Indian Sandalwood Workbox with Carved Hindu Iconography
Located in London, GB
Indian sandalwood work box, with intricate relief carved Hindu iconography to all sides and top
Category
19th Century Indian Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
Gorgeous 17th Century Spanish Dome Top Box Intricate Iron Work
Located in Montecito, CA
17th Century Spanish dome top box with intricate iron work.
The domed lid with two hinges
Category
18th Century and Earlier Spanish Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Iron
Early 19th C. Swedish Box/Dome Trunk, Original Metal Work
Located in Port Chester, NY
Lovely good-sized dometop box, with all the original metal strappings and hinges etc. Key included
Category
19th Century Swedish Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Metal
Cast Iron Artist
s Stand, with Pencil Boxes
Located in Hudson, NY
Adjustable artist's stand in cast iron and oak, with casters, and original pencil boxes. Adjustable
Category
19th Century American Antique Work Boxes
Antique Coromandel Jewelry Box by Halstaff London
By Halstaff
Hannaford
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
dressing cases Ladies work boxes & c & c. 228 REGENT ST. late of margaret st."
This box contains a
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Brass
Ant. Victorian Burr Walnut Sewing Box on Carved Legs, Table, Scotland 1850, H688
Located in Vancouver, BC
Ant. Victorian Burr Walnut Sewing Box on Carved Legs, Table, Scotland 1850, H688
Scotland 1850
Category
1850s Scottish Victorian Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Fine Boulle Work Louis XV Games Storage Box with Ormolu Mounts, France, c-1750
Located in Lake Forest, IL
Louis XV Boulle Box used for storing game pieces. A highly decorative French boulle inlaid box with
Category
18th Century and Earlier French Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Hardwood
Rosewood Writing Box
Located in Northampton, United Kingdom
Royal Family and inventor of the patent military traveling cases. The detailed work on this writing box
Category
19th Century British Antique Work Boxes
$4,560
Engraved Sterling Snuff Box
Located in Great Barrington, MA
A finely worked Georgian snuff box by Joseph Willmore of Birmingham. It has a gold wash interior
Category
19th Century English Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Dresser Box
Located in New York, NY
Magnificent 19th century English sterling silver box, beautifully hand worked in the baroque style
Category
19th Century English Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Philippine Bronze
Silver Betel Nut Boxes
Located in Seattle, WA
Philippine inlaid bronze and coin silver betel nut boxes (loatan), made by the Muslim Maranao
Category
19th Century Philippine Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Silver
Pen Work Decorated Jewelry Casket (GMD#2700)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
(Now on sale for 900.00, reduced from 1,800.00)
19th Century French Lacquer and Pen Work Decorated
Category
19th Century French Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Metal
Early 19th Century French Shaped Satinwood Box
Located in Windsor, Berkshire
been relined with handcrafted marble paper. Unfortunately the key doesn’t work the lock. The box is
Category
19th Century French Antique Work Boxes
Materials
Satinwood
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At 1stDibs, there are several options of antique work boxes available for sale. The range of distinct antique work boxes — often made from wood, metal and walnut — can elevate any home. There are all kinds of antique work boxes available, from those produced as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. Victorian, Regency and Folk Art antique work boxes are consistently popular styles. Many antique work boxes are appealing in their simplicity, but Benham
Froud, Christopher Dresser and Paul Evans produced popular antique work boxes that are worth a look.
How Much are Antique Work Boxes?
The average selling price for at 1stDibs is $1,750, while they’re typically $150 on the low end and $38,000 highest priced.
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