Belonging to a prominent New Jersey vineyard collection. Very rare, British George III 1780-90- Period, fitted tea caddy with removable canisters.
Primary woods/veneers- Harewood ground with Satinwood/Kingwood borders/ 10 Pollard Burr Walnut ovals.All finished areas cleaned back and repolished after repairs done to other areas.
Top panel with missing and degraded finish restored. Front panel lower right Kingwood veneer restored. Back panel restored. One side bottom area replaced missing Kingwood and restored the finish. Interior canisters replaced missing area and clean/polished the finish. All surfaces waxed after repairs and finish was restored. Cleaned the brass handle on the top panel. September 2023

       English Regency table box circa 1810
    Sun bleaching reversed, Ivory escutcheon made and installed, split spliced with Rosewood and leveled out.
                   The missing Boxwood edging replaced and the whole box lightly polished with Shellac.

                (left) English inlaid work box Circa 1850, missing Ivory escutcheon replaced and the case polished.
                (right) George III Harewood lithograph mounted work box Circa 1795 before & after restoration.
     (left) Regency Satinwood Tea Chest Circa 1810, before & after cleaning & polishing.
 (right) George III Tea Chest Circa 1780 Bedore & after restoration.

(left) circa 1760 German Tea Chest from the workshop of Master cabinetmaker ABRAHAM ROENTGEN.
 A museum quality tea chest circa 1760 by the workshop of Abraham Roentgen which I restored for a private collector in Southern California - after it was restored it was consigned to Sotheby's New York, Fine European & English Furniture 3/31/2011 -  Another chest by Roentgen is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
                                                                   (right) English Regency table box circa 1810
Folk art inlaid Rosewood box 19th Century, before and after touch-up to the scratched lid-and light polishing.
      A selection of 18th & 19th century Century British, European & American boxes previously restored.