Blanket box
Category
Furniture
Date
1870 - 1930
Materials
Oak
Measurements
26.5 x 123 x 61 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318220
Summary
An oak under-bed blanket box, English, late 19th/early 20th century, with four wooden wheels affixed to the sides, the lid with three-quarter lifting led, with steel pull handle to the front.
Provenance
Sunnycroft was built in 1880 for J.G. Wackrill, founder of the Shropshire Brewery. It was bought in the early 1890s by Mary Jane Slaney who proceeded to extend the house and lay out the grounds to create the estate that is there today. After Mary Slaney died in 1912 the property was bought by her brother-in-law John Vernon Thomas Lander. Three generations of the Lander family lived at Sunnycroft. J.V.T. Lander's granddaughter Joan bequeathed the estate to the National Trust in 1997.
Marks and inscriptions
'WOODIALITIES REGD' (within oval, inside lid)