Shangas's Recent Activity

It is worth checking online, there are quite a lot of SE Asians in Australia nowadays. You can buy them a lot here, also in (Indo)Dutch...

Oct 5, 2024 at 2:11 PM

I like wearing batik-print shirts in the summer. I might have to start buying more of them. I only got a few the last time I went back...

Oct 5, 2024 at 3:03 AM

Writing boxes DO sell (at the peak of my collecting I had about a dozen of them or more) and I sold all of them apart from one or two...

Oct 5, 2024 at 12:49 AM

Just as an example, this is my 1860s writing-case by Toulmin & Gale of London. T&G were one of the more recognised manufacturers of...

Oct 4, 2024 at 7:44 PM

The prices of writing slopes / cases / boxes depends on many things. First of course, is condition. If it's in fantastic condition,...

Oct 4, 2024 at 7:38 PM

Very very impressive. Most writing boxes do NOT look that good. Somebody clearly went to a lot of effort to restore it properly. It's a...

Oct 3, 2024 at 12:10 AM

Nice, big, campaign box, with brass inlays. Very nice piece from what I can see, although with antique boxes like this, it's extremely...

Oct 2, 2024 at 2:48 PM

Unless they were SUPER luxurious and fancy and elaborate and cost an absolute fortune, most writing cases had very basic locks (I should...

Oct 2, 2024 at 1:43 AM

No such thing exists, but I would give up a lot of them, if I got a nice antique house in return :)

Oct 1, 2024