b"187574 75An early Colonial Australian tea caddy,Rare pair of Colonial boxes, solid casuarina beefwood with remains ofTasmanian musk with myrtle a cedar escutcheon and some pinesecondary timbers, interior fitted with secondaries, New South Wales origin,compartments, and bottles, pencil early 19th century. inscription on both reads F.B. DALE, 15.5cm high, 30.5cm wide, 15.5cm deep Sydney, 1844. Colonial born Dale $1,2002,000 worked as a cabinet maker in Sydney, New South Wales during the early to mid 1840s. (2)16cm high, 33cm wide, 22.5cm deep.Examples of Dale's work can be found in:Australian Furniture, Pictorial History And Dictionary 1788-1938, by Kevin Fahy and Andrew Simpson, plate 399.Early Colonial Furniture In New South Wales And Van Diemens Land by Clifford Craig, Kevin Fahy and E. Graeme Robertson, plate 155. Nineteenth Century Australian Furniture by Kevin Fahy, Christina Simpson and Andrew Simpson, plate 471. $6,0008,00074"