It could be bone or dirt on ivory, I don't think it really matters in this circumstances, older boxes will use natural material whereas later...
I think the green paper could be made with arsenic, The cross hatching on ivory isn't always present and faint lines will also indicate ivory, the...
Lacquered boxes isn't something I collect but I can give my thoughts as a box collector, 1) clean it with a small amount of wax polish 2) the...
Sorry the site was down for a while and it's the summer hols. Ok the The abalone box looks old ie around 1820-1850? I would need to see if that's...
I should never comment before reading the previous comments, I think Verybrad is right, this could well be flame maple instead of satinwood, sorry...
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a very important piece!!!!! I'm nearly sure this is satinwood making it so rare and important. Yes it looks...
I've seen it before but it escapes me (too old lol) some sort of mottled figure but there are so many woods and even the way they are cut can...
I have the urge to sand that beading in to match the existing beading lol It looks miles better than it did to start with, great job. It's a bit...
Sorry I've been busy over the last few weeks. I would firstly address the yawning of the box by slightly undoing the screws of the hinges, if this...
I would just leave it as is, it has charm to it.
Lol I've found the video and clip (out of 61 videos) @ 30:30 [MEDIA]
Sorry I had completely missed your above comment and just went to the tagged comment for me. I recently watched someone restoring a RR on youtube...
Lovely box but leather is very hard to restore, the only way of keeping it original would be to get some leather filler for car seats and a darker...
https://www.selency.co.uk/p/Z1KKHAK4/old-perpetual-calendar-handcrafted-manual-wood-and-metal
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I always see photos/links in Google images to Antiquers when searching for items that have already been posted on here. I don't know if that's...
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