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Beautiful Tunbridgeware decoration with a quarter bobbin edging.
This album copy is one of nearly a full set available, all of outstanding quality.
An attractive Late 19th Century Antique Victorian Tunbridgeware Folding Cribbage Box.
The sides plain, the interior re-lined, the top decorated with marquetry cabbage roses set within the double rows of holes made to take the ivory or bone pegs used for keeping the score.
In the English Midlands, cribbage, or crib as it is popularly known, remains a popular card game until this day, with competitive leagues and friendly matches taking place between teams of players from rival pubs.
Victorian Walnut Tunbridgeware Sewing Box(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Shipping outside United States: Quoted at time of purchase
Description: A walnut Tunbridgeware sewing box, circa 1860 with original fitted interior.
This box is very finely crafted, an original, genuine, handmade, true tunbridgeware, not the later immitation stuff that came out at the turn of the century.
An attractive Late 19th Century Antique Victorian Tunbridgeware Folding Cribbage Box.
The sides plain, the interior re-lined, the top decorated with marquetry cabbage roses set within the double rows of holes made to take the ivory or bone pegs used for keeping the score.
For about two-hundred fifty years, local artisans in Tunbridge Wells produced useful wooden articles decorated with ingenious wooden mosaics.
The products became known as "Tunbridge Ware" (often written these days as "Tunbridgeware").
There were small boxes of every imaginable size and purpose, tea caddies, bowls, salad spoons, bookends, earrings, music stands, flower stands, spinning wheels, sewing thimbles, needle cases, small tables, writing desks, cribbage boards, chess and backgammon boards — the list stretches on and on.
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Tunbridge pincushion in the shape of a teapot.Sewing.(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Please refer to our stock # BY5 when inquiring.
A rare novelty teapot pin cushion in inlaid tunbridgeware.
The main tunbridge body has a rosewood handle, spout, three bun feet and knob to the pin cushion 'lid'.4cm across.
eBay.co.uk: RARE ART DECO TUNBRIDGEWARE WOODEN CIGARETTE BOX (item 230101879338 end time 18-Mar-07 20:45:00 GMT)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
THERE IS SOME DAMAGE TO THE TUNBRIDGEWARE, A STRIP IS MISSING FROM THE FRONT AND THERE IS ALSO SOME DAMAGED AREAS TO THE SIDES OF THE FRONT PANEL AND A LITTLE DAMAGED PIECE ON THE TOP.
Answered On I believe your box may be Sorrento Ware rather than Tunbridgeware?
I have been collecting Tunbridgeware for 30 years and I do not recognise it.
What a lovely little stamp box this is, and I can't imagine the hours it must have taken for the maker, often prisoners at Tunbridge Wells, to make this box.
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Description: A quite delightful Mid 19th Century Antique Victorian Tunbridgeware Miniature Chamberstick.
The stickware taper holder set upon an attractive parquetry ground of octagonal form and retaining it's original stickware handle, the whole standing upon three tapered ball feet.
