Not that it matters to me but I think you are saying the lock has been taken off an old box and put on a new box? Seems strange that the example...
Looking at the photos I've posted I can perhaps see why it's in question. These Facebook photos are better...
I get that finding something close to what I have is hard but the inlay on my box is done with skill and ivory. This is hard to do, who ever did...
"The estate" sounds American, I suppose it depends on value and value is something I haven't a clue on. The way they are describing it sounds like...
In ‘The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830’, Johanna Hecht notes that, unlike the silver coqueras which were made in a wide...
I agree they are but I found the above box (same as mine) by seeing the same lock, hinges, and pots with flowers decoration on this box...
Bingo :) https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/unicorn-mother-mary-antique-coca-tea-169076633 Still don't know the date
Thank you, sorry I know this thread is ages old but I couldn't think of any other easier way I could perhaps bump into someone from the Americas...
I have just searched the Philippines for spanish colonial boxes and I didn't really get any that had that type of lock, I can find indo portuguese...
Yes the un geometric style (birds ect) has lead me to believe in the past that it's not Islamic. I do have many boxes from India both Islamic and...
I think I might have made some small headway finding out where and when this box was made, if I put "spanish colonial antique box 18thc" into...
I believe this is a bone fly swish with all the horse hair cut off.
Nice box, yes 1830-50, this design was very popular so was made over a few decades. As for the key, try and find a antique dealer/collector who...
Sorry it's been awhile :( The truth is I don't know, often this type of decoration was done with carving out a recess in the bone or ivory and lac...
Thank you but nothing like yours :)
Mine is a 1880's clay pipe modeled with a stork holding a corn cob in it's beak, there are plenty of clay pipes in the form of corn cobs, it goes...
A corn cob pipe bowl, I believe Daveydempsey is as well.
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I'm sure many would agree if it did have a 1798 hallmark then most pipe collectors would assume the silver wasn't original. As things stand it's...
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