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Lot 375
SMOKING AND TOBACCO. A COLD PAINTED EMBOSSED BRASS SAILOR AND LIFEBUOY VESTA CASE, C1900, the sailor's cap band inscribed HERO, 4.3cm diam, and a French embossed and gilt brass snuff box shaped vesta case, the lid decorated with a lady and inscribed Alger, containing a quantity of miniature bone dominoes (2)++Lifbouy vesta with handling wear on the highlights showing brass but complete. The spring mechanism broken and the lid flapping open. The second example in good condition
Lot 107
Tartan ware - eleven pieces comprising a small snuff (Hay), 3.2cm, an oval section box (M'Farlane), 3cm, a dip pen, untitled, two metal shuttles, (M'Pherson), an egg (M'Pherson), a circular stamp box, 4.5, a silk winder (Prince Charles), 4.7cm, a cylinder box (Prince Charlie/ Smelling Salts), 8cm, an acorn form Vesta (Forty Second) and a 12 ins cylinder ruler (M'Lean) all but first three generally worn or poor (11)
Lot 110
Tartan ware - three pieces - comprising a shaped circular dish (+++Bay/central painted panel of a stag after Landseer), 17.5cm, a quaich (Athole), 8.8c, and a large snuff box style cigar case, (green tartan - untitled) a hand written old label to the lid 'Sir E. Landseers Cigar Case', 13 x 8.5, general wear (3) The last presumably Sir Edwin Henry Landseer R.A. 1802-1873 best known as an animal painter and for his lion sculptures in Trafalgar Square
Lot 39
Three Scottish snuff boxes and another, comprising a large example, full wooden hinge decorated in cross hatch pen work, the lid with trailing leaf border, wear to base, 11.5 x 7 x 3.8cm, a specimen wood snuff box, carved lid and base, ten titled sample woods, Auld Langsyne notes and words to base, stamped 'D. Craig Lensburgh', hinge broken, 8.7cm, another print to lid bathing huts and figures, 82cm, and a continental papier mache Tartan style snuff box, 8cm (4)
Lot 49
Mauchline ware - two snuff boxes and another comprising a small example, wooden hinge, the lid with transfer (Come away do, What are you staring at?), 3.8cm, a circular example with printed verse to lid (Love) wear and some loss, foil interior, 7.5cm dia, and a circular box with unusual silhouette pattern ('Patent' - in the style of Tartan), 6cm (3)
Lot 60
Mauchline ware - three snuff boxes - comprising a curved example in cross hatched pen work, full wooden hinge, 7.8cm, a rectangular example (Hawarden Castle/ Made From Tree Felled By The Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone), full wooden hinge, 7.5cm, and a continental tartan pattern papier mache snuff box, 10.4cm (3)
Lot 606
A mixed lot comprising a cube form agate inkwell, repairs or natural faults, 7cm, a papier mache rectangular snuff box the lid painted with a colonaded square with numerous figures set within a border of mother of pearl, 9.2cm, an ivory book form purse with pencil closure, silver cartouche dated 1882, 10.5cm, a tortoiseshell gold and colour lacquered hair comb, one tooth repaired/replaced, 15cm, an 18th Century travelling mirror in tortoiseshell with brass frame, hinge with small mark, 8cm, a horn magnifying glass, 5.8cm and a mother of pearl pen (7)
Lot 616
A mixed lot comprising a Tangram game in whitewood box, the sliding lid with penwork cottage landscape, 6.5cm, an unmarked silver snuff box worn, a silver stamp envelope box, a silver bladed fruit knife, a mother of pearl egg box, a miniature rotating ivory shrine, 5.5cm, a carved ivory bust medallion, a piece of agate and sixteen mother of pearl gaming counters (24)
Lot 110
A George IV 18ct Gold Snuff Box, Charles Rawlings, London 1824, rectangular with rounded corners, with engine turned engraving and a vacant reserve to the cover, 7cm wide . Clear marks to interior and part marked to cover. Engraved decoration is crisp, remannts of snuff to interior and possibly in hinge. Box closes tightly. Generally very good order. 73.4gr
Lot 111
A Silver Mounted Mother-of-Pearl Snuff Box, English or Dutch, probably early 18th century, unmarked, oval with hinged cover, the front applied with a silver mount depicting a Harlequin and monkeys, the sides with scrolling foliate engraving; and A Gilt-Metal Mounted Agate Snuff Box, 19th century, oval with hinged cover, a banded agate cover and base, the front with a shield shaped reserve, each 7.5cm wide (2). The mother of pearl example - Some wear to the definition of the mounts to the cover. Split to the mount around the cover to the left of the hinge. the mother of pearl cover and base appear intact. There is a fine gap between the base panel and the silver at the back of the box. Some small scratches and nicks to the silver mounts.
Lot 112
A French Blonde Tortoiseshell Snuff Box, circa 1790, circular with pull-off cover and two colour gold foliate mount, the cover inset with a gilt metal medal commemorating the return of Louis XVI to Paris in 1789 by Benjamin Duvivier (1730-1819), 7.5cm diameter The medal within this box was produced in 1789 after the return of Louis XVI to Paris. It depicts the King being led by a female figure of Paris and a further woman and child with the Tuileries Palace beyond and is inscribed Jy Ferai Desormais Ma Demeure Habituelle, Arrive Du Roi a Paris Le 6 Oct 1789. These events taking place after the Women's March on Versailles the previous day, which saw thousands of angry market women, and other revolutionaries, head to Versailles over the lack of and high price of available food. The King eventually giving in to the crowd's demands and releasing food from the Royal stores and returning with his family to Paris.
Lot 113
A Gold and Enamel Snuff Box, marked FJ crowned, a stylised flower, and a crowned R resembling the Paris date letter, probably Hanau circa 1800, also struck with French eagle post 1838 warranty mark for gold, oval with hinged cover, the sides, base and cover decorated with blue enamel over an engine turned ground, the cover set with an oval enamelled panel depicting classical figures in a garden setting, all within white opalescent and green enamel bead and ropework borders, large loss of enamel to base, 7cm wide . Marks struck to inside of cover, all three with some wear. Duty marks struck to rim. Large amount of loss to the enamel on base. Front panel has also had re-enamelling. Hairline crack to the inset panel in cover, and one or two scratches. Some discolouration and losses to the smalles enamel borders on the sides of the box, mostly below the hinge ant to the front. Cover closing well, hinge appears free from damage. 81.2gr.
Lot 114
Horatio Lord Nelson Interest: A George III Cut Steel and Gold Presentation Snuff Box, in the manner of Matthew Boulton, circular with pull-off cover, inscribed to the interior This Box was made by a true Born Briton, John May Of Birmingham and Presented to the King Of The Ocean Horatio Vist. Nelson June 10th 1802. Whose daring deeds of Arms Rais'd England's Flag Triumphant O'er the World, the steel base highly polished forming a mirror, 7.8cm diameter Provenance: From a private family collection, almost certainly acquired prior to 1910, and thence by family descent . The box is unmarked. Cover fits well and closes securely. Areas of rust in many places and quite significant corrosion to the polished mirror base. No apparent significant damages or repairs. The engraved panel to the interior is slightly thin and gives when pressed. To the interior is a scrap of printed text describing the box in question, it starts "Last in this unique collection of boxes, is a circular one of cut steel, 3in. in diameter, the whole of the lid and sides in the workmanship formerly so much in vogue for sword hilts, knee and shoe buckles, and other ornaments....", and goes on to describe this box.
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