Sailor's Valentine Box - Jewelry Box - Seashells - Coastal - Beach (337) $ 45.00. Add to Favorites Sailor Valentine "Sweet Love" (15) $ 1,850.00. FREE shipping Add to Favorites Mini Sailor's Valentine, 3/4" Group A (8) $ 76.99. Add to Favorites Sailors Valentine Shell Art Shell Mosaic Shell Flowers Seashell Mosaic Coastal Wedding Beach. Create Tomorrow's Heirloom Today. 2023 Updated Changes. We are a premier designer of beautiful and traditional Sailors' Valentines. We offer one of a kind Sailors' Valentine Craft Kits. Look here to see what our kits include to create your own timeless design. We also offer Shadow Boxes, Finished Sailors' Valentines, Shell Flower Kits.
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Step 1. Paint inside and outside of wood veneer box and lid with craft paint of desired color and finish. Set aside and let dry completely. Step 2. Using white glue, affix a border of sea glass and/or small shells to the perimeter of the lid. Step 3. All of our Sailors Valentine boxes come with picture glass that is held in place with 8 pieces of wood molding. Our value priced boxes ("Good Value" boxes) have the glass molding recessed from the top edge of the box; whereas the other styles have the glass molding sanded flush with the top edge of the box. In addition, the value priced. Wall Plaques. Sailor's valentine Boxes, Tables, and Display Stands. Beware of counterfeit boxes being advertised as "made by jim". We offer a wide variety of seashells for arts & crafts, supplies for Sailors Valentines, and hand crafted finished products. Quality products and quantity discounts since 2004. A sailor's valentine is a form of shellcraft, a type of mostly antique souvenir, or sentimental gift made using large numbers of small seashells. These were originally made between 1830 and 1890, and they were designed to be brought home from a sailor's voyage at sea and given to the sailor's loved one or loved ones. [1]
Antiques Atlas Sailor's Valentine Shell Box For Wall Hanging
This miniature (5×5 x 3.75 inch) box was inspired by the sailors' valentine designs of the late 19th century. The sailor's "valentine" was a form of shellcraft made using a large number of seashells from local beaches. Vintage Sailors Valentine Box- Jewelry Box - Gift Box - Seashell - Shell (316) Sale Price $30.80 $ 30.80 $ 35.00 Original Price $35.00 (12% off) Add to Favorites Sailor Valentine " Garden's Glory" (15) $ 4,800.00. FREE shipping Add to Favorites Craft Seashells Sailor Valentine Emerald Nerites Smaragdia rangiana. Centuries ago, Sailors' Valentines were handmade gifts by sailors to be given to their girlfriend or wife. I can only imagine just how difficult it must have been to be a sailor in the 19th century and to be away from his true love for months, possibly even years at a time. These Sailor's Valentine boxes come in 2 ways with different woods possible. We have frontload that can be worked on from the FRONT (BACK GLUED IN UNLESS SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED). Working from the front there are wood tabs to be removed and then the glass is removed. Once finished with the work the Sailor's Valentine box goes back together in an.
Sailors Valentine Boxed Double Sailor’s Valentine, circa 1870
Quality Sailors Valentine Boxes. Mortise and tenon joinery is great insurance against glue joint failure due to poor gluing technique or differential expansion and contraction between the sides of a box and a back panel that has been glued into a box with glue that is inflexible when it dries. Enter the Sailor's Valentine: Gorgeous shell mosaics in octagonal-shaped boxes.Some sailors lovingly crafted these Valentines (with sentimental messages: Be mine), but many snapped them up in Barbados from 1830-1880, the last port of call for American and English ships.
Hughes discovered that a woman restoring an antique sailor's valentine in a Massachusetts collection found an early 1800s clipping from the newspaper The Barbadian in the backing. The clipping. Once finished with the work the Sailor's Valentine box goes back together in an opposite manner with each wood block numbered to go in the same position. The back load works in the same manner as working from the back of the other. These Sailor's Valentines also come in many varieties of wood. Please chose which box works best for you.
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Double Sailor's Valentine " Forget Me Not" Motto, Barbados, West Indies, Circa 1885 The double Sailor's Valentine Box Made Of Shells (799) $ 68.00. Add to Favorites 5x5x3 World War II Era Sailor's Valentine Seashell Heart Box Keepsake Memory Promise/Proposal Ring Jewelry Trinket Holder Beach House Decor (441) $ 21.00. Add to Favorites Antique 19th Century Shellwork Box, Miniature Shell Art Dressing Table Circa 1890.
