The first a small Georgian shagreen fruit knife box, late 18th century, with red velvet lined fitted interior, brass mounts, raised on four later turned brass feet (wear to exterior, brass lock hasp with break and loss to hasp, wear to lining); the second an early 19th century sewing box, leather cover with lattice design, the interior opens to reveal a printed silk panel under the hinged cover depicting a fashionably dressed women standing before a recumbent camel, the upper section with divided interior, lower drawer, the whole raised on four brass paw feet and featuring lion mask and ring handles, brass hairy paw feet frame the raised panel to cover with central brass plaque (not monogrammed) (5 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.) (extensive wear to exterior, silk with shatters and loss, wear to divided interior with loss to beading).

Private Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina