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Lot 866
A late 19th century German oval snuff box, embossed with scenes of alehouse revelry, 6cm wide, .830 standard, Halbmond und Krone mark, c.1895; an Edwardian circular pill box, push-on cover engraved with scrolling foliage centred by a vacant C-scroll cartouche, milled borders, 4cm diam, S Blanckensee & Sons Ltd, Birmingham 1901; etc (4)
Lot 919
A Victorian Scottish circular table snuff box, flush hinged cover engraved with the crest and motto of Baird of Cambusdoon, Ayrshire, gilt interior, 7.5cm diam, John Mitchell, Glasgow 1853 The crest suggests that the box was engraved for James Baird (1802-1876), fourth son of Alexander Baird of Lochwood, Lanarkshire and grandson of William Blair. He owned three estates, Auchmedden, Aberdeenshire, Knoydart, Inverness-shire and Cambusdoon, Ayrshire, was DL & JP and was MP for Falkirk. He married late, in 1852, to Charlotte, daughter of Robert Lockhart, but she died without issue in 1857, leaving him free to re-marry in 1859 Isabella, dau. of Admiral James Hay but he had no issue by her either.
Lot 260
A Victorian presentation snuff box Nathaniel Mills, Birmingham 1851, of simple rounded rectangular form with engraved foliate sides and base, the cover with similar decoration round presentation inscription `Alexr F Hunter won this at a rifle contest Sept 21st 1861`; a George III snuff box London 1798, with engraved greek key borders together with a continental snuff box with engraved borders and town scene (3)
Lot 284
A Continental miniature tankard with London import marks 1902, the covered tankard with embossed scenes and border; together with a continental spirit funnel with embossed decoration; a miniature spinning wheel; a J Nasmyth snuff box, Edinburgh 1833, and a calling card case Birmingham 1908 (5)
Lot 377
A good enamel gold-mounted snuff box, the exterior painted with delicate sprays of bright blue flowers on a moulded chevron wave ground, the interior fitted with a finely painted portrait of a young lady with flowers in her hair, 2nd half 18th century, a little overpainting to the edges, 8.3cm.
Lot 539
* A Meissen double-ended snuff box, the exterior moulded with rococo scrolls around purpurmalerei flowers, the interior covers similarly painted with the portrait of a young lady wearing a flower necklace, and an old man holding an infant who tugs at his beard, gold mounted, some good restoration, 9.5cm. Provenance: from a distinguished private European collection.
Lot 355
A Regency tortoiseshell rectangular small casket, on ivory bun feet, 8cm wide; a Continental tortoiseshell and horn oblong snuff box, 2nd quarter 19th century, with a silver shield and scroll thumbpiece, 9.5cm wide; a 19th century horn, tortoiseshell and ivory snuff box, 6.2cm wide (lacking an ivory panel); a shell box, composed of two sections of whelk like shells, with a metal cover, 4.5cm long; a horn snuff box, of rectangular form, 7.8cm long; and an opaque moulded white glass scent bottle, with a gilt metal paste set cover, (5)
Lot 121
William IV snuff box, probably by Joseph Turner, Birmingham, perhaps 1836, of oblong form, chased outline, engine-turned decoration, blank rectangular cartouche, width 7cms, (2¾"), another snuff box by Nathaniel Mills, Birmingham, probably 1830, with reeded decoration, engraved initials, 5cms, (2"), (2).
Lot 14540
A Tobacco Box and Snuff Box, Thailand, 19th century silver gilt, with niello decoration, each decorated with profuse floral designs, the snuff box also with lozenge shaped medallion containing an elephant 11.2x6.8x2.5cm; 5.8x4x1.8cm Condition: gilding rubbed on underside of larger box, one or two areas of minor damage View on auctionatrium.com
Lot 97
An early Victorian silver shaped rectangular snuff box by Nathaniel Mills, Birmingham 1843, engraved with scroll foliage overall, the cover engraved with an inscription, the interior gilt, 8.2cm (3.25in) wide, 127g (4.1 oz) The presentation reads ‘Presented by the Glasgow Association of Underwriters to Lieut. Alexander Boyton, R. N. in command of H. M. Steam Packet Pike Portpatrick as an acknowledgement of his services at the wreak of the Barque Sovereign of Glasgow 10th July 1847‘. Alexander Boyter entered the Royal Navy in 1806 as a midshipman on board the Volontaire of 46 guns (Capt. Hon. Josceline Percy), then at the Cape of Good Hope. Sometime later, while in the Endymion, Boyter was severely wounded on 9th October 1814 in an ill-fated boat attack on the American privateer Prince de Neufchatel, of 18 guns and 130 men, on which occasion the British were repulsed, with a loss of 28 killed and 37 wounded. Boyton was also present at the memorable capture of the President frigate in January 1815. He obtained his commission in February 1815, and continued in the Endymion, latterly in the Channel, until paid off. He was appointed in October 1825 to the Coast Guard, being given the command (4th August 1842) of the PIKE steam-packet, on the Portpatrick station. ‘Stranraer, 10th July. The SOVEREIGN, of and for Greenock, said to be laden with sugar and rum, got on shore at 10.30 pm today in Murrock Bay, a few miles S of Port Patrick [Portpatrick]’. Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,396, London, Tuesday July 13 1847. ‘Greenock, 15th July. Part of the cargo of the SOVEREIGN, from Demerara to the Clyde, which is on shore in Murroch [Morroch] Bay, has been landed’. Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,400, London, Saturday July 17 1847. ‘The loss of this vessel is not cited by I. G. Whittaker (1998); she may have been successfully refloated’ and the inscription on the present lot seems to bear this supposition out. Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 April 2004.
Lot 98
A William IV silver gilt rectangular snuff box by Nathaniel Mills, Birmingham 1834, engine turned overall, the cover with a roundel engraved with a crest, engraved inside the cover ‘Presented to R. D. Smyth Esqr. Royal Scots Greys by Sir W. S. R. Cockburn, Bart. of that Ilk- 1848’, 7.7cm (3in) wide, 111g (3.55 oz) The crest of SMYTH of Gloucestershire and Lincolnshire. Sir William Sarsfield Rossiter Cockburn, M.A., was the seventh baronet. By his wife, Anne, eldest daughter of the Rev. Francis Coke of Lower Moor, Herefordshire, he had three sons, the eldest, Devereux Plantagenet (1828-1850), late of the Royal Scots Greys, 2nd Dragoons, died aged 21 and has an unusual sculptured tomb in the Protestant cemetery in Rome.
Lot 2692
A 19th Century papier-mâché circular snuff box, the cover decorated with a half length portrait of a lady, a 19th Century tole painted tin box, the hinge lid painted with a three-quarter length portrait of lady, an inlaid bone, ivory and ebony card case, and a collection of other boxes and card cases.
Lot 311
A 19th Century German .930 silver oval table snuff box, the hinge lid decorated in relief with a crown issuing acanthus swags framing a pair of glazed portrait miniatures flanking the letter `N`, all embellished with green, blue, red and clear pastes, the side decorated with foliate scrolls, Hanau marks to base, length approx 9cm (one portrait indistinct and wear to other).
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