Description

Antique coromandel sewing box exquisitely inlaid with ornate brass and mother of pearl inlay on the top and front with fine brass wire stringing.

The interior of this exquisite antique sewing box is lined in a blue velvet and with gold tooling. Featuring a removable tray which has four lidded compartments, various mother of pearl sewing tools including six thread spools, two thimbles and tape measure. In the center of the sewing box is a removable tool pad which contains corkscrew, pricker, scissors and pencil.
This main compartment tray can be lifted out to reveal a large storage space underneath.

The underside of the boxes main lid has a ruched silk backed hidden letter compartment which is held in place by a brass tab.

This coromandel sewing box comes with a fully working lock and tasselled key.

All our items come with authentication certificate with image, as well as our latest catalogue, care instructions and separate invoice for insurance purposes. On top of this our items come with 14 day no quibble money back guarantee and are all fully insured for when shipping.

Sewing Boxes
We at Mark Goodger Antiques have wonderful selection of Sewing boxes / Work Boxes, they come in all sorts of weird and wonderful shapes, sizes and from the beautiful Georgian period to the simple elegant lines of the Art Deco period. When we acquire these lovely boxes its always a pleasure to see what’s inside and how the ladies used each one, we often find many sewing tools, pin cushions, sewing patterns etc and other items we have no idea about, but rest assured every box we purchase we never remove their original contents we feel its all part of their own history. Sewing & embroidery were the main pass-time of Georgian ladies. Their tools & materials were first kept in Sewing Baskets until wooden Sewing Boxes became fashionable around the 1770s. Boxes were often decorated according to the lady’s own style & personal tastes, sometimes by the lady herself. Some were also fitted with tools such as tape measures, thread reels & thimbles. By the late 1800s, sewing boxes remained popular but the styles became more basic & commercially made.

All boxes at Mark Goodger Antiques are professionly restored using traditional skills all by hand. Purchasing a box from us you can be satisfied in thinking that they have been carefully looked over and only restored where necessary. Buying a box from us not only gives you piece of mind you are buying an original item and from a dealer who belongs to three leading trade assocaitions and abides by all thier strict conducts of code.