Antique Coromandel Jewellery Box Lund
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Victorian Circa 1850 From our Boxes collection, we are pleased to offer this Calamander Jewellery Box. The box is veneered in exotic Coromandel wood edged in brass with double stringing to the face and lid and a circular brass escutcheon.... Read More
Signed Lund of London
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Description
Description
Victorian Circa 1850
From our Boxes collection, we are pleased to offer this Calamander Jewellery Box. The box is veneered in exotic Coromandel wood edged in brass with double stringing to the face and lid and a circular brass escutcheon. The lid features a vacant inlaid brass name plaque in the centre framed with brass stringing. Upon opening the box the user is met with a fully lined steel blue water silk paper and cushioned velvet interior with a central removable tray and secondary storage compartment below the tray. Both the lock plate and the rear plaque would originally have been signed Lund of London however the signatures have been polished away over time. The box is undoubtedly by Lund. 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.
Coromandel 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. This makes Calamander pieces even more special.
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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