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Lot 151

A GROUP OF FOUR BOXES

including a Victorian walnut jewellery casket, with a hinged lid, single drawer and fitted interior, 15.5cm high x 27.5cm wide, a George III mahogany and parquetry tea caddy, 14cm high x 30.5cm wide, a Victorian Tunbridge ware tea caddy, 12.5cm high x 19cm wide, and a similar box, 17cm wide

Provenance: The Old Vicarage, Chideock.

Ivory Submission Reference: S838P4S2

Condition Report: click here
Estimate: £100 - £200
Hammer price: £140
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

This lot is in good country house condition.

There are chips and knocks commensurate with age and use.

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The 'jewellery box' has a later lining and buttons and missing lids to the compartments.

There is no key. The drawer to the drawer is also a later addition.

The baize on the bottom is tattered and the corners are chipped   

There are chips and knocks commensurate with age and use.


The Tunbridge Ware boxes have chips and knocks commensurate with age and use.

There are knocks and minor losses especially to the corners.

The foils and liners are missing to the tea caddy



The large tea caddy has missing areas of veneer especially to the corners and chips to extremities .  

The top does not fit flush to the main box and has warped .

The mixing bowl is a later addition and the liners/  the compartment are missing.

The baize is tattered on the base.

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