Featured Coromandel box, ink stand ?

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  1. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Any ideas, I don't quite know what this is.

    The top looks like an ink stand, but there is no lift up lid, it's a pull down front.

    Appears to be Coromandel veneer, lock has been removed.

    I don't know if it has been cobbled together from something else.

    Measures 13" x 8" x 8"

    Inside was a box of silver jewellery and a pistol.



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    daveydempsey, Oct 22, 2024
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  2. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    Neat Davey !!!!

    no lock....so u need the pistol !!:playful::playful:

    Was it loaded??
     
    komokwa, Oct 22, 2024
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  3. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    A document travel box ??
     
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    i need help, Oct 22, 2024
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    Marote Well-Known Member

    Marote, Oct 22, 2024
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  6. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Origin Germany. 19th c. Came with a "wood pen."

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    Debora, Oct 22, 2024
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    Debora Well-Known Member

    Debora, Oct 22, 2024
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  8. wlwhittier

    wlwhittier Well-Known Member

    Hey, Davey...May we have a few pics of the pistol?
    Pretty Please?
     
    wlwhittier, Oct 22, 2024
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  9. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Thanks guys,

    The top is very similar, which makes me think it has been cobbled because mine is 8 inches deep.
    It was surrendered this afternoon.

    My firearms ticket has expired.

    Very difficult to own handguns here.
     
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  10. wlwhittier

    wlwhittier Well-Known Member

    In the US, there is a saying:
    When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.
     
    wlwhittier, Oct 22, 2024
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  11. kentworld

    kentworld Well-Known Member

    Well, that'll make it easy to figure out who the bad guys are! :D
     
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  12. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    I called the cops to come and pick it up from the location.
    It was a Webley.45 Army issue, the deceased should not have had it.

    I could not leave it in the house whilst clearing and I could not carry it whilst working.

    I locked it in a secure safe in my van until collected, with Buzz on guard.

    The area in the city has become a ghetto, it's a crying shame, it was my patch 48 years ago, moderate crime rate and 99.9 % natives.

    I got there at 9.30am and the place was swamped with drugged up or drunk, North Africans, Roma, Romanians, Poles, Middle Easterns.

    The place stunk of dope.

    Non were working, just sponging off the state.

    We had to have a guard on the removal van because many of them were trying to thieve what we were taking out of the house.
    You needed eyes in the back of your head.

    They never went anywhere near my van because they had already seen and heard Buzz, his breed is banned in Romania so most of them already had an inbuilt fear:D:D

    Its a good job I'm still not in the police any more because I would have made their stay here that uncomfortable for them, they would have moved on or gone back home.:rolleyes:
     
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  13. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Nobody messes with Buzz or anything Buzz considers his. Not twice anyway. :p:p:p
     
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  14. Potteryplease

    Potteryplease Well-Known Member

    In other words, you treated a firearm as a firearm--the serious weapon that it is.

    The attitude in the US, unfortunately, is more like- 'Cool--Look what I got! Let's go shoot some sh*t up and see what else we can do with this!'

    There's an attitudinal difference, and while many gun owners here are careful and diligent, there's also 19 year old men...
     
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  15. wlwhittier

    wlwhittier Well-Known Member

    Fact...it's a real problem.
     
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  16. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    Very nice piece.

    I'd say this has been homemade.

    That top bit is definitely an old inkstand (or, what's left of it, anyway), and it looks like somebody married it to a box or case to produce this thing, which probably sat on a desk and served as a strongbox or whatever...until someone jemmied the lock out.
     
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  17. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    19 year old......... u don't gotta be no 19 year old..........

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  18. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    If it had been a really old pistol, it wouldn't have been a problem here. Anything pre-1898 isn't a firearm under US law.
     
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  19. 808 raver

    808 raver Well-Known Member

    I think this is all original and it's had the inertia removed. It may have had a slope on the fall front because inside the box it still has pieces of wood at the top to receive the wedge shape of the slope. I think it would have had Pigeon holes at the back or shelves, I think this would be worth restoring as they don't often come in Coromandel, even when this was made Coromandel was very expensive and it would be so hard to restore because all the hard bits are already there and in good shape.
     
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  20. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Very interesting, thank you.
     
    daveydempsey, Oct 28, 2024
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