A black leather-covered Victorian Parliamentary dispatch box...

Hammer

£160

A black leather-covered Victorian Parliamentary dispatch box by Wickwar & Co. 'Manufacturers to H.M/ Stationary Office', embossed in gilt letters below a VR royal cypher: 'Right Honble E. Marjoribanks, M.P.', w-38cm, d-25cm, h-13cm

Note: Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth, KT, PC (British, 1849-1909), was a moderate British Liberal Party statesman who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1894 when he inherited his peerage and then sat in the House of Lords. His career included positions as Lord Privy Seal and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, later being inducted into the Order of the Thistle.