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.

19th century

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Victorian Studded Leather Trunk

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£445

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19th century

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Elm Trunk/chest

From Midwinter Antiques

£395

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18th century

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Coffer, Trunk, Dough Bin, Solid Oak, 18th Century,

From Antiques Online Ltd

£395

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18th century

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Antique Oak Blanket Chest

From Harrison Antique Furniture

£590

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18th century

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18th Century Oak Mule Chest

From Martlesham Antiques

£1,550

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19th century

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Victorian Scumbled Painted Storage Box

From Sinclairs Antiques and Interiors

£195

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18th century

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C18th Oak Coffer

From Courtyard Antiques

£435

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17th century

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17th Century Yorkshire Coffer

From Holmes Antiques

£1,400

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Large Antique Coffer, English, Oak, Carved Trunk, Window Seat, William Iii, 1700

18th century

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Large Antique Coffer, English, Oak, Carved Trunk, Window Seat, William Iii, 1700

From London Fine Antiques

£2,850

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Great Quality Early 20th Century Travelling Coffer Chest

1900 - 1920

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Great Quality Early 20th Century Travelling Coffer Chest

From The Fine Art Fund

£450

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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.

19th century

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Indian Trunk

From Ropeworks Antiques

£680

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18th century

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Lancashire Chest Georgian Period

From Brookside Antiques

£795

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1900 - 1920

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A Fine Wooden ‘The Marshall’ Sea Chest

From The Dorking Desk Shop

£375

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Antique Celebration Chest, Indian, Teak, Brass, Trunk, Victorian, C.1900

19th century

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Antique Celebration Chest, Indian, Teak, Brass, Trunk, Victorian, C.1900

From London Fine Antiques

£2,450

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19th century

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American Dome Top Travel Trunk

From Georgian Antiques

£900

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18th century

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18th Century Period Antique Oak Coffer

From Driscolls Antiques Ltd

£695

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Antique Blanket Chests

Victorian Studded Leather Trunk

Elm Trunk/chest

Coffer, Trunk, Dough Bin, Solid Oak, 18th Century,

Antique Oak Blanket Chest

18th Century Oak Mule Chest

Victorian Scumbled Painted Storage Box

C18th Oak Coffer

17th Century Yorkshire Coffer

Large Antique Coffer, English, Oak, Carved Trunk, Window Seat, William Iii, 1700

Great Quality Early 20th Century Travelling Coffer Chest

Indian Trunk

Lancashire Chest Georgian Period

A Fine Wooden ‘The Marshall’ Sea Chest

Antique Celebration Chest, Indian, Teak, Brass, Trunk, Victorian, C.1900

American Dome Top Travel Trunk

18th Century Period Antique Oak Coffer

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