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Description:
Ref: 861JB   http://hygra.com/box/861JB 

Antique, 19th Century brass edged box in figured rosewood by T. Briggs of 27 Piccadilly, London, with working  lock,  having a velvet and paper  lined interior, a lift out tray, embossed leather document wallet in lid, circa 1830.

Origin: UK, T Briggs, manufacturer, London;  Circa: 1830; Materials: rosewood and brass.

Size: 26.5 cm wide by 20.2 cm by 13 cm:  10.4 inches wide by 8  inches by  5.1 inches.

Condition: good overall; working lock and key; see images

Keywords: Hygra.com, Antique box,  T. Briggs, 27 Piccadilly, rosewood, 

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The box opens to a paper and velvet lift-out tray and a document wallet in the lid.

The box has a compartmentalized interior with lift-out tray. 

There is a document wallet in the lid behind the ruched velvet framed by gold embossed leather. 

Detail of the lift out tray

There is a tooled leather document wallet in the lid. Inside the document wallet there is a label "Briggs Manufacturer, 27 Piccadilly".

The entry for Briggs in the Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 reads: 
"Briggs, Thomas London, cm, writing desk and dressing case maker (1819-35. (D) Addresses given at 20 Newington Causeway, 1819-23, and at 27 Piccadilly, 1829-36)"

Briggs is still listed at the Piccadilly address in the 1865 directory.

 

"Briggs, Thomas London, cm, writing desk and dressing case maker (1819-35. (D) Addresses given at 20 Newington Causeway, 1819-23, and at 27 Piccadilly, 1829-36"

The knurled brass escutcheon looks familiarly like those used by Bramah locks.

The figure of the rosewood is dramatic.

The brass escutcheon in the center of the top is engraved "JOHN H. HOWARD R.N."

A Google search has turned up:

http://www.ampltd.co.uk/../nightingale_parts_1_to_4/.../Nightingale1-4.pdf 

"16 oward (—). of Faversham; wife of [Capt.?] John [H?] Howard, [R.N.?].
Correspondence with Florence Nightingale 1887
Add. 52427 ff. 108111"

The official catalogue of the "The Chelsea Royal Naval Exhibition , 1891"  includes a box lent by Captain John H. Howard, R.N,

"3276 Small flat circular box of oak, the lid inlaid with pine wood. Inside
of the lid, a silver plate bears the inscription ' Hull of the Vanguard,
mast of L'Orient." Lent by Captain John H. Howard. R.N."

 

The rounded brass also frames the bottom. The velvet is so the box wont scratch furniture.

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