A rare opportunity to acquire a complete Victorian stationery box. This is more than a piece of furniture, it is a portable archive of wide ranging content spanning many years of use. The doors open to reveal a wealth of original contents, a drawer sits beneath released by a vertical brass rod which can be extracted once the doors have been opened.
 
Contents & Highlights:
Exquisite Stationery box: Expertly crafted with brass detailing and featuring its original working key—a rarity for boxes of this age.
Sterling Silver & Glass: Includes a substantial Victorian cut-glass inkwell with a solid sterling silver top, alongside two smaller and earlier Georgian-era glass wells. Both the lid and the collar are separately hallmarked with crisp hallmarks, it is the rarer Chester hallmark dating to 1911 and made by S Blanckensee & Son.
 
Personal Effects: Features a pair of gold-framed spectacles, a period magnifying glass, and an elegant William Mitchell dip pen with an unusual stone handle.
 
Historical Archive: There is a range of fascinating original 18th and 19th-century documents and letters, offering a primary-source look into the era’s correspondence and legalities, including an indenture dated 1785, a four page legal document dated 1782 from 'The Honourable Frances Chetwynd of Hillingdon Middlesex' who was the daughter of William Chetwynd, 4th Viscount Chetwynd a prominent Member of Parliament at the time, an Act for the Preservation of the Publick Harbours of the United Kingdom' dated 1806 and an interesting book page showing a 'Swedish Stove' and 'Mr Adams's Portable Telescope'.
 
Condition:
The box remains in excellent structural condition with a rich, aged patina. 
 
The box measures 38 x 19 x 28cm (15" x 7.5" x 11").