Furniture sold
JAMES SHERWIN antique mahogany brass bound writing box with owner's name plate on the lid "Jas. SHERWIN, 1814". Born in 1788 in the rich pottery district of Staffordshire where he learnt his craft, Sherwin moved to St Petersburg in Russia in the early 1820's. He lost his wife and son in floods and decided to move to Van Diemen's Land. James Sherwin established one of Tasmania's earliest commercial potteries setting up in Hobart in 1831. This box is purported to have personally belonged to him an
plate antique ceramicmahogany
Attributes read from the catalogue text · provenance below
Estimate
A$1,200–2,000
Realised
A$1,000
Closed 15 June 2020, 02:00 View at the house ↗
727-729 High Street, Armadale, VIC 3143
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History
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Provenance
- Source
- Leski Auctions
- First seen
- 1 Oct 2026, 10:06
- Last seen
- 1 Oct 2026, 10:06
- Category
- Furniture · classified by our model
- Reference
- This page is the durable record · survives the house removing its listing
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- c05a2084f9cd · integrity of the captured page
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