Description:
JB420: Brass bound French ebonized box by L. Aucoc aine, Paris with inlaid armorial Achievement for Bingham/ Pemburton/ Chaldicott. The box has a working Bramah lock, opening to a leather and silk covered compartmentalized interior. There are compartments and small containers which fit snugly into their allotted spaces. There is also a ‘secret’ sprung drawer. Everything is covered in original leather and silk. The hinge is heavy allowing for the weight of the box. It also has the self supporting structure which helps the heavy lid stay open.  Circa 1860.

Origin: France L. Aucoc aine,  Paris

Circa: 1860.

Size: 35.4 cm wide by 24 cm by 17 cm:  13.9 inches wide by 9.4 inches by 6.7 inches.

Condition: Good overall, working lock and key- see pictures.

 The Armorial is of William Baring de Lotbiniere Bingham.

Here are marriage details of our two young people, taken from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1858:

 

November 14th - At the Bavarian Chapel, Warwick Street, William Baring de Lotbiniere Bingham, Esquire, eldest son of the late William Bingham, Esquire, to Helen Emily, only daughter of George Pemberton, Esquire.

 

There are details of the Pemberton family in the IGI. They were from Dublin (anciently)

A marriage settlement was made in 1857, which entailed money to Bingham and Pemberton. A disentailing conveyance was carried out by William Alexander Baring Bingham of Hartbury, Esq., in 1879 - Gloucestershire Archives, Miscellaneous Gloucestershire Deeds, ref D3335/1. Quebec.

 

Helen Emily Pemberton was born in Quebec.

 

The same armorial is described  in the churchyard of  Little Chart in Kent.

87. (A flat stone within rails) Helen Emily wife of William Baring de Lotbiniere BINGHAM Esquire only daughter of the Hon. G. PEMBURTON of Quebec, Lower Canada, born 2^nd February 1832 died at Calehill, 25^th December 1860.

William Baring de Lotbiniere Bingham Esquire, born at Montreal, Lower Canada, 7^th August 1832 died at Broome Park in this County, 8^th March 1864. On a metal plate attached to the rails are these arms: Quarterly 1 &4 a bend cotised between six crosses pattee. On the bend an Escutchen (surmounted with a Ducal coronet) ? erm, on a chief - ? . 2 & 3 an arm issuant from dexter side, holding three arrows points down. [? Intended for Chaldecott]. Impaling a chevron between three buckets hooped and handled (Pemberton). Crest, an Eagle rising.

The Monumental Inscriptions In the Church and Churchyard of Little Chart, Kent.
Noted September 1920 By Leland L. Duncan.

www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/MIs/MIsLittleChart/01.htm 

 

The Armorial is of William Baring de Lotbiniere Bingham.

On the bend an Escutchen (surmounted with a Ducal coronet) ? erm, on a chief - ? . 2 & 3 an arm issuant from dexter side, holding three arrows points down. [? Intended for Chaldecott]. Impaling a chevron between three buckets hooped and handled (Pemberton). Crest, an Eagle rising.

The motto is that of Bingham:

SPES MEA CHRISTUS  

Christ is my hope

The Lucan Crest as depicted in A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage by Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D., 1883.

The Lucan Crest as depicted in, Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 1900.

The mechanism under the lock plate is interesting and in a way very French. A Bramah lock mechanism, which is stamped "Foucher Flls A Paris, is used to connect to a double steel bolt.

The lock plate is signed "L. Aucoc aine a Paris"

Aucoc Ainéin  was one of the most celebrated Palais Royal Maître tabletiers.

 Aucoc was established in 1820 and produced a large range of luxury items. The emphasis was on quality.  The packed nécessaires de voyage and elaborate toilette sets were particularly famous.

The firm had a prominent show room at 6 Rue de la Paix

They were patronized by both the French and the English 

The mechanism under the lock plate is interesting and in a way very French. A Bramah lock mechanism, which is stamped "Foucher Flls A Paris, is used to connect to a double steel bolt.

  There is a sprung drawer in the base of the box released by pressing a hidden point on the side of the central compartment.

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