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.

18th century

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18th Century Danish Oak Dome Top Coffer

From Debenham Antiques Ltd

£2,495

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18th century

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18th Century Coffer Bach

From Midwinter Antiques

£1,400

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Antique Pine Tool Chest, Victorian, 1880

19th century

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Antique Pine Tool Chest, Victorian, 1880

From London Fine Antiques

£895

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17th century

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C17th Oak Coffer

From Fernyhough Antiques Ltd

£1,295

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19th century

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Mid 19th Century Swedish Hand Painted Dome Top Coffer

From Debenham Antiques Ltd

£1,995

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Antique Silver Chest, English, Oak, Iron Bound, Lined Storage Trunk, Georgian

18th century

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Antique Silver Chest, English, Oak, Iron Bound, Lined Storage Trunk, Georgian

From London Fine Antiques

£2,250

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19th century

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Victorian Pine Blanket Box

From Harrison Antique Furniture

£490

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18th century

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18th Century Oak Panelled Coffer with Candle Box, Circa 1780

From Salisbury Antiques Centre

£575

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18th century

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Antique Coffer

From Highmeads Antiques

£160

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19th century

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Painted Scandinavian Log Box

From Arcadia Antiques

£995

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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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Large Scale 19th Century French Pine Blanket Box

From Michael Youll Antiques

£1,250

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18th century

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18th Century Antique Joined Oak Mule Chest

From Penderyn Antiques

£995

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18th century

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Small Size 18th Century Oak Kist

From James R Millington Antiques

£575

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18th century

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18th Century Chinese Hard Wood Coffer Chest

From Debenham Antiques Ltd

£2,395

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19th century

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19th Centry Embosed Copper Slipper Box

From Shackladys Antiques

£575

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16th century

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16th Century Spanish Royal Chest

From BN Art

£6,000

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Antique Blanket Chests

18th Century Danish Oak Dome Top Coffer

18th Century Coffer Bach

Antique Pine Tool Chest, Victorian, 1880

C17th Oak Coffer

Mid 19th Century Swedish Hand Painted Dome Top Coffer

Antique Silver Chest, English, Oak, Iron Bound, Lined Storage Trunk, Georgian

Victorian Pine Blanket Box

18th Century Oak Panelled Coffer with Candle Box, Circa 1780

Antique Coffer

Painted Scandinavian Log Box

Large Scale 19th Century French Pine Blanket Box

18th Century Antique Joined Oak Mule Chest

Small Size 18th Century Oak Kist

18th Century Chinese Hard Wood Coffer Chest

19th Centry Embosed Copper Slipper Box

16th Century Spanish Royal Chest

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