Object Description
This is a superb antique Victorian Coromandel & Brass Banded Box, circa 1870 in date.
It has exquisite brass line inlay with brass banding on the edges with a central brass escutcheon bearing the initials BH and the date March 1873..
The interior is lined with its original purple silk to accommodate your prized possessions.
Complete with working lock and original key.
This is a highly decorative piece which will make a statement once placed on any period desk.
Condition:
In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned, polished and waxed in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 16 x Width 36 x Depth 23
Dimensions in inches:
Height 6.3 x Width 14.2 x Depth 9.1
Coromandel wood or Calamander wood
is a valuable wood from India, Sri Lanka and South East Asia. It is of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes (or the other way about), very heavy and hard. It is also known as Macassar Ebony or variegated ebony and is closely related to genuine ebony, but is obtained from different species in the same genus; one of these is Diospyros quaesita Thwaites, from Sri Lanka. The name Calamander comes from the local sinhalese name, ‘kalu-medhiriya’, which means dark chamber; referring to the characteristic ebony black wood.
Coromandel wood has been logged to extinction over the last 2 to 3 hundred years and is no longer available for new work in any quantity. Furniture in coromandel is so expensive and so well looked after that even recycling it is an unlikely source. A substitute, Macassar Ebony, has similar characteristics and to the untrained eye is nearly the same but it lacks the depth of colour seen in genuine Coromandel.
Our reference: 09649a