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ALL THE BOXES SHOWN ON THIS PAGE ARE FROM COLLECTORS ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES AND HAVE BEEN RECENTLY RESTORED HERE IN CALIFORNIA. SOME HAVE BEEN PURCHASED AT AUCTIONS NATIONWIDE AND SHIPPED DIRECTLY HERE FOR RESTORATION, WHILE OTHERS ARE PART OF EXISTING COLLECTIONS. VALUES RANGE FROM $400 TO OVER $10,000.00

       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.

Ivory escutcheon missing
Large crack in the top panel
Strip of Boxwood edging missing
Separation at the side and back
New Ivory escutcheon made and fitted
Crack spliced and polished over
Separation mitigated
Rosewood color obtained after cleaning and polishing

                (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.  
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