A rare Colonial Australian workbox, impressively constructed using different timbers on each side comprising musk, fiddleback blackwood, tulip wood and huon pine, beautifully inlaid with starbursts in tulip wood and other native timbers. Interior fitted…
S. P. Charteris of Collingwood, Melbourne handsome fiddleback blackwood box, lined with huon pine, impressed maker's mark to the inner edge, 19th century, 15 cm high, 34.5 cm wide, 18 cm deep
An antique Colonial Australian workbox, musk, myrtle, huon pine, cedar and ebony, circa 1850, ownership inscription under lid 'G. Fryed, 6 Albert Street, Auburn', Note: Missing lift-out tray, 11 cm high, 33 cm wide, 23 cm deep
Robin Hood, early Tasmanian sewing work box, huon pine and plum pudding blackwood with ebony escutcheon. Interior fitted with huon pine tray and velvet lining, housing a variety of whalebone implements and thread winders made from musk, banksia and myrtle…
Richard Dowling, stunning dressing-case box, blackwood, huon pine, cedar, myrtle, celery pine and exotic timbers, interior fitted compartment lined in original blue velvet. Bearing an intriguing pencil inscription under the drawer 'John Martin Maker,…
An antique Colonial writing slope box, blackwood, huon pine, tulip wood, cedar, pine and fiddleback blackwood, Tasmanian origin, 19th century, 16.5 cm high, 45.5 cm wide, 46 cm deep
An antique Australian tabletop cabinet with removeable panelled front, huon pine and cedar, 19th century, interior fitted with six compartments, 45 cm high, 42 cm wide, 31 cm deep
Richard Dowling (attributed) workbox, blackwood, huon pine, myrtle, musk and cedar, Tasmanian origin, circa 1850, 12.5 cm high, 31 cm wide, 23 cm deep. Illustrated in Richard Dowling: The elusive cabinetmaker of O'Brien's Bridge, VDL, page 45, Australiana…
A Colonial violin case, kauri pine inlaid with cedar, myrtle and huon pine, Tasmanian origin, 19th century, attractively fitted interior with original velvet lining, 15 cm high, 79 cm wide, 24 cm deep
A blackwood jewellery box, burl timber canister and map of Australia box and huon pine letter rack with map of Tasmania, 20th century, (4 items), the largest 28 cm wide
An Australian exhibition sample wood double sided circular table top, inlaid with predominantly Tasmanian timbers including huon pine, musk, myrtle, blackwood and cedar, 19th century, 60 cm diameter
An Australian specimen wood box and a novelty money box in the form of a top hat, the box with a star and geometric pattern in huon pine, casuarina, cedar and blackwood, the hat in Australian oak, early 20th century. (2), height of the box 13 cm, width 29…
A specimen wood and metal inlaid box, with rising top, inlaid all over with casuarina, blackwood, cedar, huon pine and other timbers within a geometric design of steel lines, late 19th century, height 14 cm, width 27.5 cm, depth 21 cm. Provenance: The…
An Australian timber workbox, impressively crafted with inlaid top and serpentine profile, interior fitted with lift out tray and compartments with fine inlay work, cedar, musk, huon pine, blackwood and pine, Barossa Valley, South Australia, 19th century,…
A Colonial writing box compendium, cedar and fiddleback blackwood with a central huon pine monogram surrounded by quartered panels, fitted interior with ebony trim on cedar with leathered writing slope, Tasmanian origin, mid 19th century, 16 cm high, 36…
A rare Australian timber inlaid box with sunburst lid and tumbling box design, cedar, huon pine, blackwood, kauri and Baltic pine, 19th century, fitted with lift-out cedar tray, 21 cm high, 31 cm wide, 26 cm deep
An ecclesiastical box, casuarina, huon pine and ebony, Tasmanian origin, 19th century fitted with lift out compartment tray and inlaid cross inside the lid 18 cm high, 25.5 cm wide, 19 cm deep
A Tasmanian deed box, huon pine, cedar, blackwood and pine, attributed to Richard Dowling, O'Briens Bridge, circa 1850 13 cm high, 34 cm wide, 23 cm deep
An Australian timber work box, fiddleback blackwood with inlaid huon pine star, late 19th century, fitted interior painted blue, 13 cm high, 35 cm wide, 23 cm deep
An inlaid Tasmanian timber box, blackwood, casuarina, huon pine, musk, myrtle and cedar with whalebone handle, 19th century, 10 cm tall, 33 cm wide, 25 cm deep
A Tasmanian timber jewel box, huon pine, fiddleback blackwood, beefwood, she oak and burr totara (New Zealand), circa 1900, with accompanying letter and Albert fob chain, high, 18 cm wide, 18 cm deep
A superb Tasmanian timber writing box, huon pine, musk, cedar, blackwood, myrtle, beefwood, honeysuckle and casuarina, cedar secondary timbers, fitted with slope and drawer compartments, circa 1850, 18 cm high, 61 cm wide, 31 cm deep
A fine Tasmanian work box, huon pine, musk, casuarina, blackwood, pine and dogwood, fitted huon pine interior with whalebone handles, circa 1850, 12.5 cm high, 30 cm wide, 20.5 cm deep
A near pair of huon pine and flame cedar boxes, with attached dated note inside lid 1863, boxes circa 1850, largest: 13 cm high, 35 cm wide, 22 cm deep
An ebony inlaid huon pine sewing box, Tasmanian, circa 1860, 12.5 cm high, 15 cm wide, 24.5 cm deep. Literature: Australian Furniture: Pictorial History and Dictionary, 1788-1938, Kevin Fahy and Andrew Simpson, Casuarina Press Ptd Ltd, Woollahra plate 80…
An Tasmanian specimen wood inlaid writing slope, labelled R. Dowling Maker, O'Briens Bridge, Van Diemen's Land, circa 1850, specimen woods include; cedar, huon pine, blackwood, birdseye maple and possible myrtle, 17 cm high, 13 cm wide, 24.5 cm deep.…
Tasmanian work box, circa 1850, musk, huon pine, beefwood, fiddleback blackwood, myrtle & cedar, with original bun feet. Width 29 cm, depth 22 cm, height 13 cm.