In my travels, I’ve always kept my eye out for boxes – boxes of all shapes and sizes!
When I first started going on buying trips with my old chum Alexander (Sandy) Lamb, we really didn’t have an idea what some boxes could be worth, so in order to offset too much ‘personal financial loss’ 😉 we shared the cost of the purchases.
In one instance, we bought an 18thc. tortoiseshell tea caddy for $120, hesitatingly paying $60 each.
Not knowing where to sell it for more than $120, we dropped it off at Lund’s auction house and imagine our surprise when old John Boyle dropped the hammer on the lot at a cool $750!
Of course, then we both wished we’d bought it under our own steam so we wouldn’t have had to share the profits… 🙂
Below are some of the boxes in my collection.
Papier-Mache Makeup Box Russian fairytale lacquer box. DeVilbiss glass dresser box McLean tartan ware box Japanese lacquer Tea caddy Blois French Faience box Chinese scholar’s ink box 800 silver box Boxwood treen jar Canton enamel match box Chinese enamel box Victorian papier-mache box Japanese lacquer fisherman box Fedoskino oval lacquer box Indian lacquer box Japanese wooden tea caddy Marshall Vorshilov Korean Lacquer writing box Japanese temple metal box folk art cigar box Korean mop lacquer box Japanese Jazz age cigarette box Hawaiian koa Aloha boxes Japanese bento box shibata/ Japanese lacquer bird box