Description

Victorian Circa 1865

From our Jewellery Box collection, we are pleased to offer this Victorian Solid Birdseye Maple Jewellery Box. The Jewellery Box of rectangular form made from solid Birdseye Maple with brass mounted corners and twin loop handles, one to each side. The lid features an initial plaque reading D Abby Fellowes and is finished with a brass circular escutcheon to the front. The interior of the Jewellery Box is lined in Royal Blue cushioned silk velvet to the base, perfect for storing anything from Jewellery to electronics such as a laptop. The interior is finished with a high quality Sampson Mordan lock plate which is signed to the top. The Jewellery Box dates to the early Victorian period circa 1850.

The Jewellery Box comes complete with working lock and tasselled key

Birdseye Maple This is not a distinct species of maple. It is a growth variant of hard maple wood. Found in Northeastern America. The name derives from the appearance of tiny knots in the grain which resemble small bird’s eyes. This unique appearance is formed when the tree starts to grow new shoots in poor growing conditions and they are aborted leaving behind tiny knots.

Sampson Mordan was a British silversmith and a co-inventor of the first patented mechanical pencil. During his youth, he was an apprentice of the inventor and locksmith Joseph Bramah, who patented the first elastic ink reservoir for a fountain pen. Upon Mordan’s death in 1843, his sons Sampson Junior and Augustus inherited the firm. S. Mordan & Co. continued to make silverware and brass postal scales until 1941 when their factory was destroyed by bombs during the London Blitz in WWII.

Victorian, an era of British History corresponding approximately with the reign of Queen Victoria from the 20th of June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901 however, there are arguments stating that the Victorian era is actually from 1820 until 1914 proceeded by Georgian era and followed by the Edwardian era.

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