Featured England Wooden Box??

Hey guys,i already have this wooden box for years,but i still didn't know what kind of box it is,i guess maybe it's kind of wall hanging writing box?since it has hole for hanging on the back and inside the box there are two separated space so i don't think this is a mail box,this came from 1880 (i have the old certified from the past owner,it only state the date not the use or what box it is),any help will be appreciated,thank you!

 

Nice, S Wolf. Mailbox (indoors) maybe? How big is it?

 

If you could give us a close up photo of the RD number on the front someone could track it down for you.

 

the size is 25 x 11 x 17 cm,is mailbox the close guess?

 

The RD number in the front is RD 172352 , what do you think about it?

 

That number is in the 1891 range.

 

Looks as if cigar box is correct because of the pull out, I initially thought wall mounted candle box but they seem to have slide outs.

 

Cigars seems to be less usable than a letter box, normally cigars are always on flat surface, in an hermetic box, in vertical position it's not very good for the quality…
In big houses they were used until 50's currently.

 

wow i think this is close find,it has same brass handle pattern,thank you

 

i will take a photo of its inside tomorrow,because it has different interior with the one in the link,

 

What does RD stand for?

 

Does that help you ?
It's not your item, bizarre…
This Rd is for glass on the registers.
Catalogue description Registered design number: 172352. Proprietor: Dobson and Pearce. Address: 19 St...
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Reference: BT 43/61/172352
Description:
Registered design number: 172352.

Proprietor: Dobson and Pearce.

Address: 19 St James's Street, Piccadilly, London.

Subject: Double flower glass.

Class 3: glass

Note: Description created from this document and the register in BT 44/7
Date: 1864 Mar 8
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

 

OOH....R.G.on brass...Sounds like Richard Gere to me!!!!

 

In my opinion it is a country house letter box.
Country house, in British does not mean any old house in the county, although it would be in the country. Think more 'Downton Abbey. Although most are smaller, maybe down to a mere 10 bedrooms plus staff accomodation. Any reasonably wealthy family would have a country house and a town house, to be occupied at appropriate seasons of the year and the social calendar. The modern day term 'town house' used for a small terrace house is a devolved perversion of what would originally have been typically a large house (think 'Upstairs Downstairs) in a row of similar houses, often in a square around a private central garden.

Typically a country house would have a letter box somewhere convenient for guests and family to leave letters, a member of staff would collect these and send whoever was bottom of the pecking order off to the local post office with them, once or twice a day. Usually they would stand on a table in the entrance hall and more elaborate examples fetch high prices at auction.
This one may have been for somewhere less palatial than many and a wall mounting and a plain appearance was suitable.

I find the cigar box idea less than convincing, as stated cigar humidors followed pretty strict conventions on construction. A cedar wood lining was almost always a feature.

 

Registered.

 

Thank you, @AJ and @Lecollectionneur. I was not attempting to hijack the thread; simply to follow along. Not so bizarre, I think.

 

how come registered glass ended in wooden box,something wrong happened?

thanks for reminding me of him

i think it's make sense,i also believe this should belong to kind of letter or writing things about,thank you for your input!

 

No problem LibrarxLady, the english system is very easy for dating through those letters, but here it's a problem with the number, totally different.
You can find those initials on this link.
And more precise when you have found the first part here.