Dear Donna,
Can you help with a value on this antique box?
Mary
Dear Mary,
Your box that you seem to be using for jewelry looks like it’s serving a good purpose.
It looks to be from the Victorian era (middle to late 1800s). The blue area is enameling and appears to have some damage. The metal covering the wood looks like tarnished brass.
The tricky part would be where you see the painting-like areas. It’s better for the value if they were painted and not just transfers. Transfers that resemble paintings were very common during that era.
Either way I think the value would be in the $100+ range as is. If they’re really painted, the value would be higher. My recommendation to be sure is to have someone take a look at it in person, as it is hard to tell just from the photo.