deed box

I need your help to move a heavy deed box."

There is a heavy deed box in the library I want moved, James.

In one of those musty old deed boxes in his office.

There were deed boxes piled up against the walls - boxes with respectable County names on them.

To turn pages he'd apparently rested a corner on the stack of deed boxes beside him in lieu of a proper reading table. "

All the documents were gathered in a small trunk: a lockable metal deed box, used for holding important valuable documents such as property deeds.

Whether either pictures or deed boxes were of any value we do not know: still less can we connect either disappearance with Heissman.

Various deed boxes labelled Sir John ffouldes, dec.

The Dorrington Deed Box (1897)

'This all needed careful sorting, particularly the contents of the deed boxes, and with little space available, it was some time in 1925 before the job was complete.

Vast numbers of deed boxes labeled Lady Hope, Sir Everard Carr, William atesby-Hoares Esq., Deceased, etc., gave the required atmosphere of decorous county families and legitimate, long-established business.

He sat in his backwater of an office, surrounded by deed boxes and stacks of papers and shelves of law books, and Rosie, who liked him, felt sorry to be leaving him, although she was glad enough to turn her back on her typewriter.

'Nor I. I wish he had, for I should have found my job easier,' said Harbottle, casting a glance round the room, which was indeed crammed with cupboards, shelves with labelled deed boxes piled on them, a safe, standing open, two filing-cabinets, and a large bookcase.

This building contained a cellar, stacked up to the door and ceiling with all sorts of stuff, some of it junk and rubbish, but also including a number of deed boxes, some furniture and several very interesting old items, e.g. an Admiral Fitzroy barometer, letter scales etc.'