Stamp box
Category
Desktop & office
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, leatherette and brass
Measurements
30 x 123 x 78 mm
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Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 40620.3
Summary
A wooden box with integral lid covered in a blue leatherette material. Inside the lower half has six compartments each of which slopes from front to back and was probably used for postage stamps. On top of the lid is a circular brass emblem of the head of either Hermes or Mercury.
Provenance
This memory/keepsake trunk was instigated by George Abraham Gibbs (1873-1931) at some point after the death of his first wife Victoria (Via) Florence de Burgh Gibbs (1880-1920) and before, or shortly after, he married his second wife, Ursula Lawley, in 1927. He filled it with items belonging to himself and Via, and presented it to their daughter, Doreen, who added further items to the trunk. Upon Doreen’s death in 2008, the trunk and its contents were inherited by Doreen’s daughter, Victoria Eyre.