Y A RARE JAMAICAN SPECIMEN WOOD BOX BY JAMES PITKIN EARLY 19TH CENTURY The Specimen parquetry top above interior with paper reference index variously inscribed for wild tamarind, Mahoe, Cashew etc, and inscribed James Pitkin Kingston Jamaica 33.5cm wide, 13cm high, 26.5cm deep A Regency specimen wood games table by the same maker with paper label inscribed J. & W. PITKIN, Manufacturers Of Cabinet & Upholstery Furniture Of Every Description., / Of The Best Materials And Workmanship, No. 15, North West Corner Of Church Street, And Water-Lane, Kingston, Jamaica was sold at Christie's Fine English Furniture auction, 19th September 2002, lot 44 £5,378.Literature: John Cross, 'Ralph, Cuthbert and Thomas Turnbull: A Nineteenth-Century Jamaican Cabinet-Making Family,' Furniture History, XXXIX (2003), pp. 109-120.