What's the difference between a coffer and a blanket box?

In practice the words overlap. "Coffer" tends to be used for the earlier oak chests, plank or panelled, and appears in 407 titles. "Blanket box" is the general term for a lidded chest kept in a bedroom or hall, and appears in 522. The same chest could carry either name depending on the dealer writing the title. Reading the timber and construction in the description tells you more than the noun does.

Which wood are these usually made from?

Oak leads, in 506 titles, followed by pine in 298. Elm, camphor wood, mahogany, walnut and a scattering of satinwood, padouk and teak make up the rest. Oak carries the panelled and carved coffers. Pine carries the Victorian boxes, often painted, scumbled or stripped.

How old can a blanket chest be?

The dealers' dated field runs from 1680 to 1940 across the listings that carry a clean year. Title attributions reach further, with sixteenth-century Tudor and Elizabethan claims at one end and 1930s oak at the other. One sampled title claims a late fifteenth-century Gothic coffer in oak and elm. It is the only pre-1500 attribution anywhere in the evidence, so medieval dating isn't a real segment of this market.

Are these only English?

No. Origins outside Britain form a steady minority: Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Flemish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Romanian, Alpine, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Zanzibari, Canadian and American pieces all appear. Swedish painted chests and Chinese camphor wood turn up most often among them.

Do people use blanket chests as something else?

Often, and dealers say so in the title. Twenty-two titles offer the chest as a coffee table. Others are listed as a TV stand, hall seat, window seat or fireside bin. The low, flat-lidded forms take to it most easily.

Who made antique blanket chests?

Names are almost absent from this category. A scan of 1,290 listings turned up no maker or workshop attributions at all, which is unusual for a furniture form. What dealers name instead is a region. Welsh appears in 36 titles, and Yorkshire, Lakeland, Lancashire, Dorset, Westmorland, West Country and North Country coffers all surface in the samples.

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A lidded chest with a hinged top, made to store and carry blankets, linen and valuables long before the chest of drawers took over the job.

Antique Military Campaign Chest in Camphorwood C.1850

19th century

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Antique Military Campaign Chest in Camphorwood C.1850

From Minerva Antiques Ltd

£1,250

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19th century

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19th Century Studded Trunk

From Antiques Decorative

£280

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Victorian Pitch Pine & Brass Bound Trunk

19th century

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Victorian Pitch Pine & Brass Bound Trunk

From Church Street Antiques & Interiors

£650

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18th century

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18th Century Oregon Pine Coffer — Circa 1780

From Whites Antiques

£1,375

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17th century

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Antique 17th Century English Oak Dorset Coffer

From Wakelin and Linfield

£2,250

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19th century

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Swedish Marriage Chest

From Arcadia Antiques

£1,250

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Antique Victorian Slipper Box Solid Wood Storage Trunk

19th century

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Antique Victorian Slipper Box Solid Wood Storage Trunk

From Heavenly Antiques

£175

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17th century

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Mid 17th Century Oak Panelled Coffer

From Kendall House Antiques Ltd.

£650

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Victorian Domed Leather Trunk with Brass Studwork, by Arthur Wannop

19th century

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Victorian Domed Leather Trunk with Brass Studwork, by Arthur Wannop

From Tinker & Toad

£750

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Massive Late 15th Century Gothic Coffer in Oak and Elm

Pre 16th century

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Massive Late 15th Century Gothic Coffer in Oak and Elm

From Wakelin and Linfield

£2,950

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Regional names run through the titles on Sellingantiques. Welsh appears in 36, and Yorkshire, Lakeland, Westmorland, Dorset and West Country coffers all turn up too.

17th century

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A 17th Century Oak Coffer Carved

From Wickersley Antiques

£295

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19th century

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Syrian Inlaid Trunk

From Ropeworks Antiques

£480

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18th century

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Antique 18th Century Oak Coffer

From Penderyn Antiques

£695

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18th century

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Antique Early Welsh Oak Large Coffer

From Penderyn Antiques

£695

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19th century

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Painted Pine Mule Chest Early 19th Century

From Christopher Pye Antiques

£420

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A Beautifully Waxed Antique/old Pine Heart Victorian Box

19th century

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A Beautifully Waxed Antique/old Pine Heart Victorian Box

From D & J Hunt Antiques

£345

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Antique Blanket Chests

Antique Military Campaign Chest in Camphorwood C.1850

19th Century Studded Trunk

Victorian Pitch Pine & Brass Bound Trunk

18th Century Oregon Pine Coffer — Circa 1780

Antique 17th Century English Oak Dorset Coffer

Swedish Marriage Chest

Antique Victorian Slipper Box Solid Wood Storage Trunk

Mid 17th Century Oak Panelled Coffer

Victorian Domed Leather Trunk with Brass Studwork, by Arthur Wannop

Massive Late 15th Century Gothic Coffer in Oak and Elm

A 17th Century Oak Coffer Carved

Syrian Inlaid Trunk

Antique 18th Century Oak Coffer

Antique Early Welsh Oak Large Coffer

Painted Pine Mule Chest Early 19th Century

A Beautifully Waxed Antique/old Pine Heart Victorian Box

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