Workbox
Category
Wooden objects
Date
1851 - 1875
Materials
Mahogany, Paper, Silk
Measurements
100 x 235 x 175 mm
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Plas Yn Rhiw, Gwynedd
NT 648803
Summary
Box; Workbox - A mid-Victorian mahogany rectangular Tunbridge ware workbox, paper lined; the inner tray missing, the lid lined with silk (in poor condition). Contains 18 blue wooden beads and a broken string of imitation amber beads.
Provenance
the property was given to the Trust as part of the Plas yn Rhiw estate between 1950 and 1966 by the Misses Eileen, Lorna and Honora Keating in memory of their parents, John William and Constance Annie Keating.