Skip to main content
Items Similar to A most unusual Victorian brass private posting box
An Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Cartonnier / Dresser
An Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Cartonnier / Dresser
Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Cabinet by J.B.A. Lanneau
Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Cabinet by J.B.A. Lanneau
Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Empire Style Cabinet
Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Empire Style Cabinet
19th Century Gilt Jewelry Cabinet with fitted 17th Century Italian Interior
19th Century Gilt Jewelry Cabinet with fitted 17th Century Italian Interior
Fine quality antique Victorian French freestanding ormolu mounted cabinet
Fine quality antique Victorian French freestanding ormolu mounted cabinet
Cabinet 19th Century, Napoleon III Period, Style Boulle
Cabinet 19th Century, Napoleon III Period, Style Boulle
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 8

A most unusual Victorian brass private posting box

$18,005.42
£13,200
€15,332.24
CA$24,806.96
A$27,055.48
CHF 14,332.17
MX$324,356.77
NOK 182,528.10
SEK 166,908.41
DKK 114,546.86

About the Item

A most unusual Victorian brass private posting box, in the form of a shaped cabinet with two hinged doors, each embellished with a set of initials within a beribboned wreath and with a letter box above, one marked ‘London’ and the other ‘Country’, the central panel stating ‘This is a private Posting Box. Letters and packages posted will be treated in all respects as post letters but proof of the posting will not be accepted in legal proceedings as evidence of receipt by the addressee by order or the Postmaster General’, followed by the nine daily collection times and one at midnight on Sunday, all raised on a black-painted cast iron base with three cabriole front legs and two straight back legs. English, circa 1900.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 45.5 in (115.57 cm)Width: 41 in (104.14 cm)Depth: 19 in (48.26 cm)
  • Style:
    Victorian (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
    Brass,Iron
  • Place of Origin:
    England
  • Period:
    20th Century
  • Date of Manufacture:
    Circa 1900
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    Lymington, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU973046219132

More From This Seller

View All
Late 19th Century French Kingwood and Ormolu Vitrine or Display Cabinet
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Fine Late 19th Century French Kingwood and Ormolu Vitrine or Display Cabinet, the present piece with its glazed sides and glazed top panel was designed to be viewed in the round an...
Category

Antique Late 19th Century French Cabinets

Materials

Ormolu

Late 19th Century French Kingwood and Ormolu Vitrine or Display Cabinet

Late 19th Century French Kingwood and Ormolu Vitrine or Display Cabinet

$11,442
Victorian Single Door Mahogany Cabinet in the French Taste
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Victorian single door mahogany cabinet in the French taste, of upright rectangular form with a grey marble top set above a frieze with a disguised drawe...
Category

Antique 1890s English Cabinets

Materials

Glass, Mahogany

Victorian Single Door Mahogany Cabinet in the French Taste

Victorian Single Door Mahogany Cabinet in the French Taste

$7,877
Regency Brass-Inlaid Rosewood Secretaire Cabinet
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Regency brass-inlaid rosewood secretaire cabinet, the rectangular top with a pierced galleried shelf with trellis work on the sides, above a secretaire drawer, banded with brass pa...
Category

Antique 1810s English Regency Cabinets

Materials

Brass

Regency Brass-Inlaid Rosewood Secretaire Cabinet

Regency Brass-Inlaid Rosewood Secretaire Cabinet

$25,575
Victorian Satinwood Breakfront Side Cabinet Attributed to Dyer and Watts
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Victorian satinwood breakfront side cabinet with Wedgwood plaques attributed to Dyer and Watts, the shaped top above a central door flanked by two gla...
Category

Antique 19th Century English Victorian Cabinets

Materials

Ormolu

Victorian Satinwood Breakfront Side Cabinet Attributed to Dyer and Watts

Victorian Satinwood Breakfront Side Cabinet Attributed to Dyer and Watts

$19,587
Superb Early Victorian Ebony Collector’s Cabinet
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A superb early Victorian ebony collector’s cabinet, of rectangular form with two cupboard doors opening to reveal four short and two long drawers lined...
Category

Antique 1850s Scottish Early Victorian Cabinets

Materials

Ebony

Superb Early Victorian Ebony Collector’s Cabinet

Superb Early Victorian Ebony Collector’s Cabinet

$26,189
Mid-Victorian Kingwood Serpentine Cabinet
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A mid-Victorian kingwood serpentine cabinet, English in the French style, the shaped top with burr-walnut half veneers within kingwood banding and b...
Category

Antique 1860s British Victorian Cabinets

Materials

Brass

Mid-Victorian Kingwood Serpentine Cabinet

Mid-Victorian Kingwood Serpentine Cabinet

$5,729

You May Also Like

An Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Cartonnier / Dresser
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Cartonnier / Dresser The tall cabinet with an upper section containing nine deep tooled leather veneer drawers, above two long d...
Category

Antique Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Dressers

Materials

Bronze, Ormolu

An Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Cartonnier / Dresser

An Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Cartonnier / Dresser

$22,500
Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Cabinet by J.B.A. Lanneau
Located in Long Island City, NY
A wonderful late 19th century Napoleon III gilt bronze mounted carved ebonized cabinet. By J.B.A. Lanneau. Top drawer surmounted by a black portor marble-top, large single door with floral bronze designs, centered by a carved shield. Gilt bronze lion paw feet. Stamped Lanneau to the carcass. The firm was founded by Lanneau Pere circa 1855-1880 at 9, rue Saint-Ambroise. They exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1867 and Vienna World Exposition...
Category

Antique Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Cabinets

Materials

Marble, Bronze, Ormolu

Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Cabinet by J.B.A. Lanneau

Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Cabinet by J.B.A. Lanneau

$27,500
Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Empire Style Cabinet
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Empire Style Cabinet The Vert marble top above two large doors mounted with angels, the top ...
Category

Antique Late 19th Century French Empire Cabinets

Materials

Marble, Bronze

Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Empire Style Cabinet

Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Empire Style Cabinet

$27,500
19th Century Gilt Jewelry Cabinet with fitted 17th Century Italian Interior
Located in Troy, NY
Petit, very decorative English gilt cabinet on stand, with an Italian 17th century poker-work interior featuring an intricate system of drawers, including numerous hidden ones. Reconfigured in the 19th century. The perfect jewelry cabinet. The interior of the cabinet is indeed very intricate. Apart from the obvious drawers surrounding the middle compartment which can be taken out as a complete "box", there are several small drawers behind it, only accessible when the "box" is taken out, and the box itself has additional tiny drawers inset into it's back side. The cabinet is a very decorative, intriguing and unusual piece, configured in the 19th Century by integrating the 17th century Italian Poker...
Category

Antique 18th Century English Baroque Cabinets

Materials

Wood

19th Century Gilt Jewelry Cabinet with fitted 17th Century Italian Interior

19th Century Gilt Jewelry Cabinet with fitted 17th Century Italian Interior

$28,000
Fine quality antique Victorian French freestanding ormolu mounted cabinet
Located in Ipswich, GB
Fine quality antique Victorian French freestanding ormolu mounted display cabinet having a fine quality serpentine shaped mahogany and ormolu mounted freestanding display cabinet wit...
Category

Antique Early 19th Century French Victorian Cabinets

Materials

Ormolu

Fine quality antique Victorian French freestanding ormolu mounted cabinet

Fine quality antique Victorian French freestanding ormolu mounted cabinet

$3,069
Cabinet 19th Century, Napoleon III Period, Style Boulle
Located in Warsaw, PL
This Napoleon III Style cabinet is made of black polished wood, mounted with gilt bronze, inlaid with brass and resting on top is a plate of Belgian black marble. The Napoleon III st...
Category

Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Cabinets

Materials

Bronze

Cabinet 19th Century, Napoleon III Period, Style Boulle

Cabinet 19th Century, Napoleon III Period, Style Boulle

$70,073

More Ways To Browse

Victorian Brass Box
Audio Cabinet
Black Media Cabinet
Cabinet With Butterflies
Cherry Display Cabinet
Chevron Cabinet
Corner China Cabinet
Deco China Cabinet
Demilune Console Cabinet
Dragon Cabinet
Emerald Cabinet
Floating Glass Cabinet
French Shop Counter
Half Moon Cabinet
Henredon Scene Two
Korean Cabinet Brass
Moroccan Wood Cabinet
Multi Drawer Cabinets
View All Popular Cabinets Searches