Featured Coromandel box, ink stand ?

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by daveydempsey, Oct 22, 2024 at 9:43 AM.

  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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  2. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    Neat Davey !!!!

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

    Was it loaded??
     
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  3. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    A document travel box ??
     
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  4. i need help

    i need help Moderator Moderator

  5. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

  6. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

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

    Debora

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  7. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

  8. wlwhittier

    wlwhittier Well-Known Member

    Hey, Davey...May we have a few pics of the pistol?
    Pretty Please?
     
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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.
     
  11. kentworld

    kentworld Well-Known Member

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