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Antique despatch boxes, and objects that carry royal cyphers and insignia, offered by Barrow Hepburn  & Gale - the official maker of Britain’s despatch boxes. We make the monarch’s despatch boxes, and  the governments’.

Every release is small and carefully curated by Sam: a fixed number of pieces, never a rolling catalogue. At its heart are the boxes: some from our own collection, others we date and authenticate the way the auction houses ask us to: by their materials, locks and cyphers. Alongside them, objects that share their world: pieces bearing a royal cypher or insignia; or objects carried and used by officials of state. Join the waitlist to see each release before it opens to the public, read the research behind the pieces, and receive The Despatch, our quarterly journal on the cyphers, insignia and maker’s marks these objects carry what they tell us, and the offices they served.