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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: icedgold10 on March 30, 2014, 04:54:48 PM
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I am trying to figure out what style and time period this box is. Will the damage on the top devalue it a lot?
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Do the sides open as well?
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no, just the top. It is gorgeous but the damage on top concerns me.
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Try a google image search for: tunbridge ware jewellery box. Really cool look, imo :)
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Can't really tell what the damage is from your picture...can you describe it please?
Also, my father in law had one with hidden compartments...are you sure the sides are solid?
Similar in style Tunbridge Ware 1920's jewelry box
http://antiquebroochesvintagejewellery.blogspot.com/2013/07/1920s-art-deco-tunbridge-ware-jewellery.html (http://antiquebroochesvintagejewellery.blogspot.com/2013/07/1920s-art-deco-tunbridge-ware-jewellery.html)
This was from an auction in 2001 $275
http://www.burchardgalleries.com/auctions/2001/may2001/l071a.jpg (http://www.burchardgalleries.com/auctions/2001/may2001/l071a.jpg)
This one just sold in Jan 2014 in Cheshire UK for US $71.78
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOVELY-ANTIQUE-TUNBRIDGE-WARE-MUSICAL-JEWELLERY-BOX-IN-XLT-CONDITION-/310838842682 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOVELY-ANTIQUE-TUNBRIDGE-WARE-MUSICAL-JEWELLERY-BOX-IN-XLT-CONDITION-/310838842682)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-English-Burl-Walnut-and-Tunbridge-Inlaid-Jewelry-Box-c-1860-/291107813440?pt=Antiques_Decorative_Arts&hash=item43c760b840&nma=true&si=DOluG0YRub6vpCdc4zoUhfAljKs%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-English-Burl-Walnut-and-Tunbridge-Inlaid-Jewelry-Box-c-1860-/291107813440?pt=Antiques_Decorative_Arts&hash=item43c760b840&nma=true&si=DOluG0YRub6vpCdc4zoUhfAljKs%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557)
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Easy to label this as Tunbridge Ware but strictly speaking it's just a nice marquetry and parquetry box
Sometimes the design is just a veneer and that top surface looks like it. Just rubbed away in certain places ?
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Rusty you are on a roll.
KC no hidden drawers :( The damage in on the inlay on top.
Ipcress, when I looked up Tunbridge it said it was made with inlay veneers??? ??? Please explain further. thnx.
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Some of the less typical pictorial vignettes are veneer but thicker than the cheaper stuff which is more common, less valuable and can look like paint peeling away. Certain vignettes / scenes will be far more mass produced and so the veneer tends to be thinner. Sometimes the same vignette / scene will have been used on different pieces.
There are other decorative designs which are often classed as Tunbridge Ware but have little in common with the place. However, these designs do retain a certain ' quality ' and individuality.
Fine quality marquetry and parquetry boxes have inlaid pieces like jigsaw puzzles, not paint thin veneer. If thin then the design and work has to be superbly done..that's when pieces can fetch top dollar.
Yours looks like a nice piece of wood was used though.
That's what i meant when i said it's easy to refer to any inlaid box as Tunbridge Ware when strictly speaking there are reasons for it
Hope i've cleared that up a bit but is after midnight here ! :-\
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Yes, that helped a lot. Thank you. Because I have seen some that are painted and they are not nice at all. Midnight it's 8 at night here. Night is still young. lol