Silver Vesta Cases

Vesta cases, which also go by the name of vesta boxes, matchsafes and pocket matchsafes, were used to stores vestas (short matches) and to keep them dry so that they were able to light when struck. They were first made in the 1830s, with their heyday being between 1890 and 1920, when everyone kept a vesta box to hand, though while the poor had boxes made from tin, the vesta boxes of the wealthy were made from gold and silver. Most vesta boxes had a ribbed surface on the bottom so that the owner could also strike the matches kept inside, while some also include cigar cutters and small knife blades. Steppes Hill Farm Antiques stocks a variety of antique silver vesta cases from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, specialising in enamel, novelty and engraved designs.

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Frederick Purnell, London 1886
£245.00
Hilliard & Thomason, Birmingham 1879
Reserved
James Fenton, Birmingham 1906
Reserved
A & J Zimmerman, Birmingham 1897
£165.00
Sampson Mordan, London 1892
£450.00
Saunders & Shepherd, Birmingham 1907
Reserved
William Neale, Chester 1903
£420.00
Frederick Edmonds & Edward Johnson, London 1890
Reserved
Sampson Mordan, Chester 1912
Reserved
Hilliard & Thomason, Birmingham 1881
Reserved
Minshull & Latimer, Birmingham 1887
£280.00
Sampson Mordan, London 1889
£1,100.00
S Blanckensee & Sons Ltd, Birmingham 1897
£350.00
Sampson Mordan & Co, London 1891
£1,650.00
Louis Kuppenheim, Pforzheim c1915
£300.00
Watson & Co, Attleboro, Massachusetts c1900
£265.00
Horton & Allday, Birmingham 1902
£900.00
The Gorham Manufacturing Co, Providence Rhode Island c1900
£360.00
Sampson Mordan, London 1900
£295.00
Louis Kuppenheim, Pforzheim, German c1910
£300.00
William Francis Garrud, London 1891
£385.00
Saunders & Shepherd, London 1902
£360.00
Sebastian Garrard, London 1911
£1,050.00
George Unite, Birmingham 1868
£265.00
Asprey & Co, London c1930
£845.00
Tiffany & Co, New York c1890
£300.00
J H Hillcox, Birmingham 1906
£445.00
S.Blanckensee & Son Ltd, Birmingham 1893
£365.00
Thomas Johnson, London 1874
£865.00
James Fenton, Birmingham 1906
£750.00
The Goldmsiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd, London 1913
£950.00
J C Vickery, London 1911
£575.00
George Heath, London 1895
£1,500.00
S Blanckensee & Son Ltd, Birmingham 1914
£320.00
A J Zimmermann, Birmingham 1906
£380.00
Murrle Bennett & Co, London 1904
£2,500.00
Thomas Acott & Co, Birmingham 1896
£350.00
William Oliver, Birmingham 1887
£800.00
Thomas Acott & Co, Birmingham 1894
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