Furniture & Works of Art - 12 Jan 2010

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Charles Asprey & Son. A Victorian coromandel and gilt brass toilet box

£10,000 - £15,000

Charles Asprey & Son. A Victorian coromandel and gilt brass toilet box, the hinged cover with an ebonised brass moulded edge, revealing a fitted interior with a brass framed coromandel mirror with leather pocket behind, flanked by a pair of articulated candle scones, and an applied plaque engraved Charles Asprey & Son, 166 Bond St, London, to five cut glass bottles with silver covers, with a pierced gallery and two pairs of hinged trays, the top two with further glass jars, the next released with a Betjemann's Patent catch, having watered silk linings and secret drawers, plush and leather lined with satinwood veneered sides and underside, with push button releases, the leather lined base with two drawers and two ivory handled pens and a pencil, two stamped Asprey, the fall front with an ivory backed hand mirror initialled M, the brass lock stamped Asprey, 166 Bond St, 9.5in (24cm) h, 14.5in (37cm) w, 11.5in (29cm) w. The silver top hallmarked London 1879 and are monogrammed CAA.

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