Both Abraham and David Roentgen were famous for combining intricate mechanisms and fine marquetry in their furniture. However, teaboxes and other small pieces of furniture have largely been neglected by students of Roentgen furniture. A detailed analysis of the construction of teaboxes sold by the Neuwied furniture-makers in the 1750's and 1760's is given. The author believes that the teabox presented in this study is among the oldest surviving teaboxes from the Roentgen manufacture. A small type of Roentgen box has also been identified -- coming from the same princely collection in Northern Germany which can be traced in an uninterrupted line back to the late 18th century -- hitherto only known through the contemporary description in the lottery-catalog of 1768, first published by Hans Huth. Whereas the purpose of the teabox is relatively clear, although it would be impractical to store tea in a wooden box without pewter or silver containers, it is much less obvious what the purpose of the other box was. It seems that it was one of those expensive, luxurious toys that 18th-century court society loved.