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

Nothing, as the titles use them. Blanket box is the domestic-use name for the same lidded chest and appears in 151 titles. Coffer, chest and trunk are swapped in and out the same way. A single listing will often carry two of the four names together.

Which period do most coffers come from?

The 17th century is the single largest bucket at 655 listings, ahead of the 18th at 563 and well ahead of the 19th at 266. For furniture that's unusual, the oldest band being the biggest. The dated field spans 1580 to 1940, but only 481 of 2,549 listings carry a clean year. The rest are given as a century or a reign, and Georgian, 1700s and Before 1700 overlap with the century labels.

Are coffers always oak?

Oak appears in 1,728 of 2,549 titles, so it's the default. Elm, pine, walnut and camphor wood divide most of the remainder. Elm turns up in boarded chests alongside oak. Pine tends to be painted, and camphor belongs mainly to the travelling and steamer trunk group.

What is a Welsh coffer bach?

A small Welsh chest, often on turned feet. The word bach is in 87 titles, and coffor bach is a common alternative spelling. Welsh attributions run through the category more widely, with welsh in 118 titles. Some coffer bach listings frankly declare themselves later work made in an 18th-century style.

Do trunks count in this category?

Yes. Travelling, campaign and steamer trunks make up about a tenth of titles and are more prominent in what's currently listed than in what has sold. They come leather, hide, iron and brass-bound, some camphor wood, some zinc-lined or fitted inside.

How often do coffers come up for sale?

Around 271 are listed a year on Sellingantiques, and 281 different dealers have offered one. Almost every furniture dealer touches this category at some point. Most of that flow is English oak. Now and then something lands from far outside it, a Swat Valley dowry chest or a Moroccan leather-bound example, each appearing just once.

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A coffer is a lidded storage chest, the basic box of the early modern house, used for linen, clothes, grain or valuables, and doubling as seating or a travelling container.

17th century

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A Rare 17th Century Oak Coffer

From Holmes Antiques

£1,800

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Welsh Oak Coffor Bach (Miniature Coffer), C.1760-80

18th century

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Welsh Oak Coffor Bach (Miniature Coffer), C.1760-80

From The Ark Stores

£1,150

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19th century

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19th Century Indian Rosewood Merchants Trunk

From The Old Cinema

£2,950

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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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17th century

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17th Century Arcaded Oak Coffer

From Holmes Antiques

£850

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17th century

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17th Century Oak Coffer

From Jane Short Antiques

£695

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17th century

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17th Century Spanish Leather Chest/trunk

From Lee Wright Antiques & Interiors Ltd

£3,600

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George III Mahogany Lancashire Mule Chest

18th century

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George III Mahogany Lancashire Mule Chest

From Church Street Antiques & Interiors

£1,450

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Antique Carpenter's Chest, English, Pine, Tool Trunk, Coffee Table, Victorian

19th century

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Antique Carpenter's Chest, English, Pine, Tool Trunk, Coffee Table, Victorian

From London Fine Antiques

£1,195

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19th century

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Early 19th Century Coaching Trunk

From witchantiques.com

£935

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Coffers on Sellingantiques are often named for where they were made: Yorkshire, Westmorland, Lakeland, the Dales, Dorset, Lancashire, Cornwall, Leeds and the Gower peninsula.

19th century

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Late 19th Century Scandinavian Woven Pine Dome Top Trunk

From Debenham Antiques Ltd

£595

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19th century

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Camphor Trunk/chest

From Midwinter Antiques

£995

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18th century

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Georgian Oak Mule Chest Coffer

From Prior and Willis

£1,046

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17th C. Studded Leather Bound Chest on Stand

17th century

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17th C. Studded Leather Bound Chest on Stand

From Roy Precious - Antiques & Fine Art

£1,550

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19th century

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19th Century Anglo-indian Trunk

From Anthony Short Antiques

£1,400

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19th century

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Victorian Pine Mule Chest

From Sinclairs Antiques and Interiors

£350

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Antique Coffers

A Rare 17th Century Oak Coffer

Welsh Oak Coffor Bach (Miniature Coffer), C.1760-80

19th Century Indian Rosewood Merchants Trunk

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

17th Century Arcaded Oak Coffer

17th Century Oak Coffer

17th Century Spanish Leather Chest/trunk

George III Mahogany Lancashire Mule Chest

Antique Carpenter's Chest, English, Pine, Tool Trunk, Coffee Table, Victorian

Early 19th Century Coaching Trunk

Late 19th Century Scandinavian Woven Pine Dome Top Trunk

Camphor Trunk/chest

Georgian Oak Mule Chest Coffer

17th C. Studded Leather Bound Chest on Stand

19th Century Anglo-indian Trunk

Victorian Pine Mule Chest

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