Antique Boxes
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~boxes/boxweb/index.html
Sewing boxes are particularly featured here, though tea caddies, jewellery boxes, glove boxes, writing boxes and snuffboxes are all detailed as well. As the illustrations show, many of these have great charm and are highly collectable, though these days usually expensive.
SPECIAL FEATURES
The website owner, Antigone Clarke, has written a good page entitled Antique Boxes in English Society, accessed from the link in yellow on the homepage as The Online Antique Box Book. It is best to start by reading her Introduction before selecting the particular type of box that interests you. There is a very interesting article on the topic of faked tea caddies near the top of the index, and another on the connections between tea and the opium trade.
A beautiful, elegant website, presented by a true expert.
Sewing boxes are particularly featured here, though tea caddies, jewellery boxes, glove boxes, writing boxes and snuffboxes are all detailed as well. As the illustrations show, many of these have great charm and are highly collectable, though these days usually expensive.
SPECIAL FEATURES
The website owner, Antigone Clarke, has written a good page entitled Antique Boxes in English Society, accessed from the link in yellow on the homepage as The Online Antique Box Book. It is best to start by reading her Introduction before selecting the particular type of box that interests you. There is a very interesting article on the topic of faked tea caddies near the top of the index, and another on the connections between tea and the opium trade.
A beautiful, elegant website, presented by a true expert.
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