Rare Colonial Boxes by F.B. Dale, Sydney 1844

Rare pair of Colonial boxes, solid Tasmanian musk with myrtle secondary timbers, interior fitted with compartments, and bottles, pencil inscription on both reads 'F.B. Dale, Sydney, 1844'. Colonial born Dale worked as a cabinet maker in Sydney, New South Wales during the early to mid 1840s. 16 cm high,3 33 cm wide, 22.5 cm deep. Examples of his work can be found in, Australian Furniture, Pictorial History And Dictionary 1788-1938', by Kevin Fahy and Andrew Simpson, plate 399. Early Colonial Furniture In New South Wales And Van Diemen's Land' by Clifford Craig, Kevin Fahy and E. Graeme Robertson, plate 155. Nineteenth Century Australian Furniture' by Kevin Fahy, Christina Simpson and Andrew Simpson, plate 471.