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Australian & Historical (#457) Closed

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Lot 75Rare pair of Colonial boxes, solid Tasmanian musk with myrtle secondary timbers, interior fitted with compartments, and bottles, pencil inscription on both reads "F.B. DALE, Sydney, 1844". Colonial born Dale worked as a cabinet maker in Sydney, New South Wales during the early to mid 1840s. 16cm high, 33cm wide, 22.5cm deep. Examples of his work can be found in: "Australian Furniture, Pictorial History And Dictionary 1788-1938", by Kevin Fahy and Andrew Simpson, plate 399. "Early Colonial Furnit

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Lot closed - Price Realized:$5,000
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000

Australian & Historical (#457) Closed

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  • Rare pair of Colonial boxes, solid Tasmanian musk with myrtle secondary timbers, interior fitted with compartments, and bottles, pencil inscription on both reads "F.B. DALE, Sydney, 1844". Colonial born Dale worked as a cabinet maker in Sydney, New South
  • Rare pair of Colonial boxes, solid Tasmanian musk with myrtle secondary timbers, interior fitted with compartments, and bottles, pencil inscription on both reads "F.B. DALE, Sydney, 1844". Colonial born Dale worked as a cabinet maker in Sydney, New South - 2
  • Rare pair of Colonial boxes, solid Tasmanian musk with myrtle secondary timbers, interior fitted with compartments, and bottles, pencil inscription on both reads "F.B. DALE, Sydney, 1844". Colonial born Dale worked as a cabinet maker in Sydney, New South - 3