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PERTH - a Scottish provincial mounted large cowrie shell snuff box, circa 1800, maker William Ritchie, marked WR and double-headed eagle, the flat hinged cover finely bright engraved with chevron and prick-dot borders around the central foliate engraved oval, initialled MJ? Length 10cm For a cowrie shell snuff box of similar quality by the same maker see 'A Private Collection of Scottish Silver', Lyon and Turnbull February 19th February 2004, lot 313. £1,000-1500
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PERTH - a Scottish provincial mounted large cowrie shell snuff box, circa 1800, maker William Ritchie, marked WR and double-headed eagle, the flat hinged cover finely bright engraved with chevron and prick-dot borders around the central foliate engraved oval, initialled MJ? Length 10cm For a cowrie shell snuff box of similar quality by the same maker see 'A Private Collection of Scottish Silver', Lyon and Turnbull February 19th February 2004, lot 313. £1,000-1500
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