Victorian Green Velvet Vanity BoxSplendid, late 19th century box covered in green velvet with mauve pink silk interior and metal filigree surround. It would have been a dresser box for a mirror, hair brush, nail buffer, etc. The original contents are gone, but I got the box for a great deal so I figured Id pass it on at an equally good price! I keep almost all my things in antique boxes rather than going to big box stores for storage. This box would also make a gorgeous platform for

It would have been for a wooden tea crate- check out the last photo to see an example from my collection

In other words

large and silver plated

single vintage bookend made of green tooled leather and featuring the profile of Dante Alighieri

white porcelain ashtray features a transferware design on both sides taken from Leonetto Cappiello’s poster advert from 1905

The Victorians ADORED color

Shield Books

This is the first time I’ve seen colored tiles from this series

and its original sewing notions

I would hang it from the two openings at the top center

with Hints towards its Purification

They are rarer than rare- but usually always in plain brown or blue