Here we have a very fine Victorian brass table box decorated with Cabochon agate stones - stamped Howell James & Co Regent St London c1870
The box measures 20x20x10cm
Similar sold on 1st Dibs
On the inside rim of the box there is an engraved text that reads 'Howell James & Co Regent St W' - Howell James & Company was a firm of jewellers and silversmiths based in Regent Street in London which operated between 1819 and 1911.
In 1876 they added galleries showing professional art pottery and the fashionable amateur china painting, and immediately became the main London venue for this.
It sold items by students and designers of the South Kensington School.
In 1884 the company became a limited company and their name changed to Howell & James Ltd.
So we can date this piece to between1819 -1884.
The raised brass cross and banding is very finely engraved and decorated with many banded agate cabochons
The box is lined with the original purple watered silk which is showing its age
As a whole the box is in very good condition and unpolished to show its rich patina
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