Birdseye Maple Musical Cigarette Box
You must be a subscriber, and be logged in to view price and dealer details.
Subscribe Now to view actual auction price for this item
When you subscribe, you have the option of setting the currency in which to display prices to $Au, $US, $NZ or Stg.
- Maple - Maple, native to North America, is a dense heavy timber from light to yellow-brown in colour. It has very little distincive graining unless it is one of the variants such as birds-eye maple or burr maple, so was not used extensively for furniture in 18th and 19th century, where cabinetmakers and designers preferred timbers with more distinctive features such as mahogany, walnut, rosewood and oak.
Birds-eye maple has a seres of small spots linked by undulating lines in the grain, is highly sough and is used as a decorative veneer. Burr maple has larger and irregular grain swirls than birds-eye maple.
This item has been included into following indexes:
Visually similar items
An Edwardian cigar box, rectangular, with shallow-domed cover. Width 15 cm
A late 19th early 20th century cedar chest, the plain interior with internal lidded box to one side, missing lock 80 cm width x 45 depth x 41 height
A Victorian birds-eye maple writing slope, with decorative edge to the hinged lid. 30 cm x 21 cm x 13 cm
A Tasmanian huon pine deed box, mid 19th century, 12 cm high, 39 cm wide, 26 cm deep