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.

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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19th century

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Rare Irish Travel Trunk, Labelled

From Antiques Decorative

£380

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Eighteenth Century Continental Chestnut Chest

18th century

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Eighteenth Century Continental Chestnut Chest

From Ropeworks Antiques

£1,780

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19th century

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1117 Pine Painted Blanket Box

From Claire Langley Antiques

£330

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16th century

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Rare Dated Elizabethan Coffer

From Holmes Antiques

£3,400

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18th century

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Antique Carved Oak Blanket Chest

From Harrison Antique Furniture

£690

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18th century

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Large 18th Century Walnut Colonial Chest Circa 1790

From Whites Antiques

£1,300

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19th century

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Polished Oak and Canvas Dome Top Chest

From Elmgarden

£450

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17th century

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17th Century Oak Coffer

From Treasury Antiques

£395

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19th century

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Original Painted Dowry Chest

From Arcadia Antiques

£595

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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.

A Georgian Extra Wide Antique Pine Waxed Blanket Box

18th century

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A Georgian Extra Wide Antique Pine Waxed Blanket Box

From D & J Hunt Antiques

£545

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1900 - 1920

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Early 20th C. Pine Farmers Chest

From The Old Yard

£685

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17th century

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17thc Oak Coffer C1680

From Salisbury Antiques Centre

£850

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17th century

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17th Century Continental Walnut Cassone

From LVS Decorative Arts

£1,400

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19th century

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Oak and Metal Bound Silver Chest 19th Century

From Heydays Antiques

£795

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18th century

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18th Century Small English Oak Coffer

From Debenham Antiques Ltd

£850

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Antique Coffers

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

Rare Irish Travel Trunk, Labelled

Eighteenth Century Continental Chestnut Chest

1117 Pine Painted Blanket Box

Rare Dated Elizabethan Coffer

Antique Carved Oak Blanket Chest

Large 18th Century Walnut Colonial Chest Circa 1790

Polished Oak and Canvas Dome Top Chest

17th Century Oak Coffer

Original Painted Dowry Chest

A Georgian Extra Wide Antique Pine Waxed Blanket Box

Early 20th C. Pine Farmers Chest

17thc Oak Coffer C1680

17th Century Continental Walnut Cassone

Oak and Metal Bound Silver Chest 19th Century

18th Century Small English Oak Coffer

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