Description

Victorian Circa 1850

From our Boxes collection, we are pleased to offer this Calamander Jewellery Box. The box is veneered in exotic Calamander wood with quadrant brass edging and double stringing to the face and lid with a shield motif escutcheon. The lid features an inlaid brass vacate name plaque in the centre. Upon opening the box reveals a fully lined interior with blue water silk paper and a steel blue cushioned velvet with a central removable tray, mirror located in the inner lid and secondary storage compartment below the tray. Both the lock plate and the rear plaque are signed Lund of London, the manufactures of the box. The box dates to the late Georgian period during the reign of William IV Circa 1830

The box comes complete with a working lock and key.

Calamander is a valuable wood found in India, Sri Lanka and South East Asia. It has a contrasting hazel-brown colour with black grain. It is a dense, heavy wood that is so popular it has been logged to extinction over the last few hundred years.

Lund was established in London by Thomas Lund in 1804. Initially selling pens and quills the Lund firm became known for the high-quality manufacture of cutlery, writing boxes and other luxury items. William Lund the son of Thomas was also a cutler and dressing case maker, apprentice to William Anderson from who William acquired the premises on Fleet Street, London in 1835.  Thomas and William initially ran their businesses independently, but after Thomas’s death in 1845, William took over the running of both, whilst also expanding his own premises in Fleet Street. When William Lund died in 1872, his son Charles continued the business under the name of William Lund & Son.

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