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Click here to subscribeA Victorian presentation snuff box, by E Smith Birmingham 1855, of shaped rectangular form with engraved floral and scroll design to sides, base and border of lid, the lid with presentation inscription 'By many cordial friends presented with a purse fo gold to Mr James McConnach Post-Runner....', 9cm x 6cm x 2.5cm, 6.1oz
A collection of fifteen treen and related items, 18th and 19th century, including a piqueworked snuff shoe; a nutcracker; an ebony and bone inlaid inkwell box; a small Scandinavian kasa; four various cylindrical boxes with covers; and seven other items. Visit www.dnfa.com for condition reports.
A collection of costume jewellery, mostly bead and other necklaces, a mother-of-pearl necklaces, a vari-coloured paste bead necklace, an enamelled trinket box decorated with the queen of diamonds, two waist belt buckles, a papier-mâché snuff box, inlaid with abalone shell, various brooches, earrings, pendants and sundry.
A Victorian Silver Rectangular Shaped Snuff Box with Scrolled Engraved Decoration to Lid which is Incribed "Presented to Mr Donald Urquhart (Along with a Purse of Sovereigns... As a Mark of Esteem for His Heroic Conduct in Saving the Lives of Four Persons from Drowning at the Risk of His Own on the 19th August Last...". Scrolled Decoration to Concave Sides and Base. Frederick Marson Birmingham 1860. 9 x 6 cm.
A mid 18th century tortoiseshell and gilt metal snuff box of rectangular form decorated in low relief with chinoiserie, the cover with a central ho-ho bird within a rococo scroll border enclosing a portrait under glass of Charles Prince of Brunswick, the sides carved with pergolas, cornucopiae and rocaille 8.2cm wide, 3.8cm high, 6.2cm deep Note: according to a note attached, this box belonged to The Hon. Gerald Ponsonby and his daughter Geraldine, Countess of Mayo, godmother to Mary Desborough Craster (ancestor of the vendor).
A LIVERPOOL HOOF-SHAPED CUP, PHILIP CHRISTIAN & CO, press moulded and painted in underglaze blue with flower sprays and butterflies, 7.5cm h, c1770 The purpose of this unusual form, unique to Christian's factory, is uncertain. Several authorities have speculated that the shape was intended as a stirrup cup, sweetmeat dish or to be mounted as a snuff box. See Watney (B M), Liverpool Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century, Shepton Beauchamp 1997, fig 150 and the Catalogue of the exhibition Made in Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool 27 June - 19 September 1993, No 112. ++Old pinhead sized flat rim nick, no restoration
A CONTINENTAL PIQUÉ AND COPPER GILT SNUFF BOX, the cover decorated with peafowl and a bird on a branch, with ripple moulded sides and engraved base, the underside of the lid engraved with a mirror monogram and coronet, 8.5 x 6.5cm, c1760 ++A good quality box in fine condition. One corner of the tortoiseshell on the lid is chipped.
A GEORGE III ENAMEL SNUFF BOX, POSSIBLY BIRMINGHAM, the lid painted with a bee on a rose, honeysuckle and forget-me-nots, the sides with single flowers, gilt copper mount, 7 x 5.5cm, c1770 ++The lid with several short hairline cracks near the mount, pinhead sized corner chip, the sides with one or two hairline cracks and a small graze
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