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.

Unusual Original 19thc Small Painted Welsh Coffer.

19th century

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Unusual Original 19thc Small Painted Welsh Coffer.

From Mike Melody Antiques

£295

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19th century

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Pine Log Box Console

From Nethermill Antiques

£450

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19th century

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China Trade Painted Leather Trunk

From Millers Antiques

£450

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19th century

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Zanzibar Chest

From Spencer Robertson Antiques

£1,250

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Solid Pine Trunk with Working Lock and Side Lifting Handles

1900 - 1920

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Solid Pine Trunk with Working Lock and Side Lifting Handles

From The Dorking Desk Shop

£175

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17th century

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17th Century Yorkshire Coffer.

From Dickinsons Antiques

£1,650

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Antique Studded Zanzibar Chest, African, Carriage Trunk, Victorian, Circa 1850

19th century

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Antique Studded Zanzibar Chest, African, Carriage Trunk, Victorian, Circa 1850

From London Fine Antiques

£1,495

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18th century

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18th Century Oak Mule Chest / Coffer

From Sinclairs Antiques and Interiors

£550

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18th century

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Jacobean Four Panel Oak Blanket Chest

From Harrison Antique Furniture

£790

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19th century

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Attractive Large Antique Victorian Pine Kist Chest Storage Trunk Blanket Toy Box

From Abacus Antiques

£125

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Kist, cassone, coffer bach, damchiya dowry chest, Armada chest, Zanzibar chest, cannonball box, slipper box - all one form, each name turning up only a handful of times.

Rare Mid C19th Indian Lacquered Chest / Trunk on Stand

19th century

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Rare Mid C19th Indian Lacquered Chest / Trunk on Stand

From Gary Wright Antiques Ltd

£2,250

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18th century

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Georgian Painted Pine Mule Chest

From The Old Yard

£485

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17th century

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Small Early 17th Century Oak Coffer

From Holmes Antiques

£2,200

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17th century

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A Rare 17th Century Ebonized Dorset Coffer

From Holmes Antiques

£2,400

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19th century

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Small Swedish Log Bin

From Arcadia Antiques

£750

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19th century

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Antique Pine Metal Bound Chest

From Penderyn Antiques

£595

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Antique Blanket Chests

Unusual Original 19thc Small Painted Welsh Coffer.

Pine Log Box Console

China Trade Painted Leather Trunk

Zanzibar Chest

Solid Pine Trunk with Working Lock and Side Lifting Handles

17th Century Yorkshire Coffer.

Antique Studded Zanzibar Chest, African, Carriage Trunk, Victorian, Circa 1850

18th Century Oak Mule Chest / Coffer

Jacobean Four Panel Oak Blanket Chest

Attractive Large Antique Victorian Pine Kist Chest Storage Trunk Blanket Toy Box

Rare Mid C19th Indian Lacquered Chest / Trunk on Stand

Georgian Painted Pine Mule Chest

Small Early 17th Century Oak Coffer

A Rare 17th Century Ebonized Dorset Coffer

Small Swedish Log Bin

Antique Pine Metal Bound Chest

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