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Lot 574
A French pressed burr maple snuff box with contemporary concealed miniature, the lid die stamped with a view of the COLONNE DE LA PLACE VENDOME, the underside with an engine turned pattern, the interior of the base with a threaded tortoiseshell liner revealing an amorous couple, the miniature finely painted in a bright palette on ivory in giltmetal mount, 8.8cm diameter, c1820 Literature: Another example is illustrated Pinto (E H), Treen and other Woden Bygones, 1969, plt 365 X and discussed pp347-348. According to Pinto, although such French pressed burr maple snuff boxes are not uncommon, examples with concealed miniatures are scarce, the more so when they retain such a well preserved, original erotic miniature as the present example. ++In pristine original condition, no cracking, splits, shrinkage or repairs
Lot 586
Crime. Lord William Russell's snuff box, the French pressed burr maple box lined in gold and with chased thumbpiece, the lid mounted with a cabochon in a gold rosette, the underside stained, 8.5cm diam, early 19th c; with a broadside - THE TRIAL CONFESSION AND EXECUTION OF F.B. COURVOISIER for the MURDER OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL, woodcut illustrations [London:] Paul & Co, 7 Dials, 65 x 41cm [1840] framed; Bridges (Y) Two Studies in Crime, two copies, 1959; three other books on the Russell family (7) Literature: Bridges (Y), Two Studies in Crime, 1959, illus plt 2. Lord William Russell (1767-1840) was murdered by his 23 year old Swiss valet Francois Benjamin Courvoisier at his house, 14 Norfolk Street, Mayfair on the night of 6 May 1840. The motive was robbery. The victim was the uncle of the Duke of Bedford and also of Lord John Russell, Secretary of State for the Colonies and subsequently Prime Minister. Within hours of the discovery of the crime Prince Albert informed Queen Victoria of Russell's apparent suicide at which she was very shocked. Later the same day Lord John Russell informed the Queen in person of his uncle's murder. The present snuff box was discovered beneath the bloodstained pillow of Lord William's bed. The murderer was soon apprehended and hanged. A MACABRE MEMENTO OF ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS MURDERS IN THE ANNALS OF 19TH CENTURY CRIMINOLOGY. ++In fine condition with a light straight line scratch on the lid
Lot 331
A 19th century rectangular cut glass box with gilt decoration and a silhouette of a Georgian gentleman painted to the lid; an agate 'egg' and a smaller smoky quartz 'egg'; a Victorian elongated cut glass gilt decorated scent bottle; a silver mounted rectangular pocket magnifying glass, in a leather case; an inlaid papier mache snuff box; a silver cigarette box, Birmingham 1921, the lid inscribed 'To Lt. Col. C.W.Villiers CBE. DSO from the manager and staff, Native Recruiting Company Ltd, stores department, August 31st 1923'; a polished steel cigarette case and matching vesta, with applied gold lettering; 'C.W.V. from M.D. Bulawayo 1896', the vesta case inscribed 'C.W.V. 12.3.97'; and other items The Native Recruiting Company was set up in 1912 to source labour from the black communities of South Africa and later other African countries to work in the mines
Lot 304
A SILVER TEASET with reeded design, on ball feet to include a teapot, with ebonised wooden handle, London 1901, (makers mark worn), a milk jug and sugar bowl, Thos. Bradbury & Sons, Sheffield 1901, a pair of susgar nips, Martin Hall & Co. Sheffield 1878, a Continental Silver snuff box and a silver plated candlestick holder (6)
Lot 204
Perth - a Scottish provincial open salt by James Cornfute of Perth circa 1775, marked IC, double headed eagle, IC, double headed eagle (makers marks in square punches), of shallow form with gilt interior, resting on three hoof feet 6cm diameter, 1.3oz Notes: While not the most prolific or well known Perth maker, Cornfute was a maker of some skill and has left some very high quality examples of his work. In the collection of Perth Museum and Art Gallery they have a wine funnel, snuff box and a pair of shoe buckles, all of which show the versatility and skill of this often over looked maker.
Lot 261
A Victorian gold mounted agate presentation table snuff box of canted rectangular form with panels of agate forming hinged lid and base, the concave sides with reeded borders and chased foliate designs within C scroll panels, with scalloped thumb piece 7cm x 5.5cm x 2.5cm Notes: The lid rim with engraved presentation border 'PRESENTED BY COLONEL DUGLAD CAMPBELL R.A. TO ARTHUR CAMPBELL WRITER TO THE SIGNET 1848' The Presenter of the snuff box Dugald Campbell was born in Campbeltown, Argyllshire, on 3rd February 1781. He was the eldest son of Duncan Campbell (born c.1755) and his wife Anne (born c.1759). His parents both came from the town and had married in Campbeltown on 23rd February 1780. Dugald Campbell was baptized in Campbeltown on 13th February 1781. He enrolled as a gentleman cadet at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich at the age of 14 on 14th July 1795, Campbell was subsequently commissioned 2nd lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, at the age of 15 years and 10 months, on 6th December 1796. Promoted 1st lieutenant on 16th July 1799, he spent the period from July 1800 to May 1802 in Spain, Malta, Egypt and Italy. He served at Ferrol, in Spain, in 1800 and in Egypt in 1801, taking part in the actions there on 8th, 13th and 21st March during which he was wounded and for which service the Sultan of Turkey awarded him the small gold medal of the Imperial Ottoman Order of the Crescent. Promoted 2nd captain on 29th July 1804, he returned to the Mediterranean in May 1805 to serve in that theatre of operations until August 1812. He fought at the Battle of Maida in Calabria, southern Italy, on 4th July 1806 and then again in Egypt in 1807, where he participated in the bombardment of Rosetta. He was present on the expedition to Diamente in Calabria in 1808 and at the capture of the islands of Ischia and Procida in the Bay of Naples in 1809. He was promoted captain on 3rd August 1810. In April 1813 Campbell was posted to Jamaica where he remained until August 1815 and during which posting he probably met his future wife, Anne Mary Bernard, the widowed daughter of David Kerr of that island. In 1814, at the apparent ending of twenty years of war with France, he was rewarded for his services by being included in a general brevet promotion to the rank of major: this took place on 4th June that year. On 30th January 1816 he married Anne Mary Kerr, or Bernard, in Edinburgh. His final overseas postings were to the garrison of Gibraltar, where he was posted from July 1824 to May 1828 and from February 1829 to July 1832. Campbell was promoted lieutenant-colonel on 17th June 1828 and retired on full pay on 4th June 1836, being promoted to the rank of colonel on 23rd November 1841. On the institution of the Military General Service Medal 1793-1814 in 1848 Campbell was awarded this campaign medal with the single clasp for the battle of Maida. Had he survived a further year, he would have been awarded an additional clasp for the campaign in Egypt in 1801 but he died in Edinburgh on 14th July 1849. Since his marriage was childless, his estate, apart from a few specific bequests, reverted to his widow, who died in Edinburgh in 1855. Among the specific bequests in Colonel Campbell's Will were three snuff boxes which were bequeathed to three of the four trustees of his Will, his three brothers-in-law, Herbert Newton Jarrett Kerr (d. 1875), William Mitchell Kerr (d. 1862) and Donald Macmillan, who was married to Campbell's sister Anne. The fourth trustee of the Will was Arthur Campbell WS, who had prepared it in 1844 and who was also bequeathed 'the four oil paintings which at present hang in our dining room'. The recipient of the snuff box, Arthur Campbell was born on 15th July 1788, the 4th son of Arthur Campbell of Auchmannoch, Ayrshire (d. 1828) by his wife Burella Hunter, the second daughter of Robert Hunter, professor of Greek at Edinburgh University. Campbell was admitted to the Register of Writers to the Signet on 23rd November 1813 and apprenticed to John Hunter, who may have been a kinsman. On 31st August 1825, Arthur Campbell married Jane Barstow, the daughter of Thomas Barstow of Kelso and elder sister of the distinguished Edinburgh accountant Charles Murray Barstow (1804-85). Campbell purchased the 481-acre estate of Nether Catrine, Ayshire, in 1852, was a director of the British Linen Bank for more than thirty years and was also a Justice of the Peace for Edinburgh. He died in Edinburgh on 3rd March 1875. His son, Arthur (1827-84) and grandson, George (b. 1862) were also Writers to the Signet. The three snuffboxes specifically bequeathed in the Will of Colonel Dugald Campbell may be of relevance. The text of the Will in this regard reads as follows: "We request Mr Herbert N.J. Kerr's acceptance of the Mosaic Snuff Box which was given to Colonel Campbell by Mr Jarrett. Also we leave to Mr Donald Macmillan the Pebble Snuff Box mounted in silver which formerly belonged to the Macdonalds of Sanda…. We request Mr William M. Kerr's acceptance of Colonel Campbell's Silver Snuff Box left him by David Kerr his father." Although it is clear that the gold-mounted agate snuff box that is the subject of this report was not among those bequeathed in Colonel Campbell's Will, it is implicit that the bequeathing or giving of snuff boxes was an action of some significance and particularly in the case of snuff boxes with some historic importance for both giver and receiver. '…the Pebble Snuff Box mounted in silver which formerly belonged to the Macdonalds of Sanda…', for example, may commemorate the massacre of the Macdonalds of Sanda following the capture of the Castle of Dunaverty in Kintyre by troops loyal to the Campbell Duke of Argyll in 1647: it may even have been an item of booty removed from Dunaverty by a Campbell ancestor of Colonel Dugald Campbell. Since Arthur Campbell WS was Colonel Campbell's legal advisor and man of business, and of course also a distant kinsman, it seems most likely that Note: The box was a gift from the Colonel in the year prior to his death, to his legal advisor for some service rendered and also, perhaps, in order that all the Trustees of theColonel's Will should each have an appropriate snuff box by which to remember him. Stephen Wood MA FSA,
Lot 263
An 18th century Jacobite interest enamel patch box of circular outline, of deep blue enamel ground with gilt brass mount and hinged cover, the base of the interior zinc lined, the lid of black ground with oval applied portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart within gold border 6.5cm diameter Provenance: sold with an accompanying note stating ''This box was presented by Prince Charles Edward to Captain John Burnett of the R H Arty' Bought as part of the collection Geogian and earlier snuff boxes from the Burnett of Leys Aberdeenshire. Notes: See foot note on lot 18 for discussion of hidden Jacobite supporters items
Lot 290
A Victorian presentation snuff box of Scottish military interest by EM, Birmingham 1856-57, of shaped rectangular outline with all over foliate scroll decoration, the lid with central cartouche from and C scrolls, with presentation inscription, with applied foliate scroll thumb piece 7cm x 4.5cm x 1.5cm 2.7oz Notes: The presentation inscription reads: Presented to Color Sergt Alexr Reid 42nd RH by his comrade sergant as a mark of esteem on his leaving the Depot PERTH 14 June 1861
Lot 292
A Victorian presentation table snuff box by Nathaniel Mills of Birmingham 1852-1853, of rectangular outline with deeply cast and chased applied border of shell, scroll and acorn design, the central cartouche with engraved crests and presentation inscription, the sides with similarly applied borders, the base with engine turned decoration and raised on shell 'feet' 12cm x 8cm x 4cm, 11.1oz Notes: The presentation inscription to the lid reads: Presented to The Most Noble The Marquess of Breadalbane by the inhabitants of Dunse in connection with an address and tablet, April 1862 The crest is for KINCAID or MACDONALD. To the right the arms of John Campbell, KT, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane. A prominent free churchman in the disruption controversy, Lord Breadalbane entertained Queen Victoria at Taymouth Castle, Perthshire 1842 and as Envoy Extraordinary to Prussia in 1861 he conveyed the Order of the Garter to the Prussian King William (afterwards German Emperor). The Marquess of Breadalbane was a great collector and enthusiast of silver and in particular Scottish silver. He must be considered to be the first serious scholar and collector of Scottish silver and had a great interest in odd an unusual marks including provincial. Many of the items in his collection carry his incuse 'Breadalbane' collectors mark. The majority of his silver was sold by auction within the contents of Taymouth castle in 1922
Lot 293
A Victorian presentation snuff box by James Nasmyth & Co, Edinburgh 1851-1852, of rectangular outline, the body and lid with tartan effect engraved decoration the central cartouche to lid engraved with presentation inscription, with applied reeded and foliate thumb piece to lid 8cm x 5cm x 2cm, 4oz Notes: The presentation inscription reads; "Presented to Mr Thomas Fleming, Brewer by the men in the employment of Messrs Alexander Berwick & Co and a few friends as a mark of their respect and esteem, Edinburgh October 1851" Alexander Berwick purchased the brewery in Gentle's Close, Holyrood, Edinburgh, in 1822. James Gentle, who had been an Edinburgh brewer since at least 1747, purchased the property in 1753. After his death in the 1780s it remained in his family and was probably rented out. Richard Younger operated it from 1783 until the 1790s. Alexander and John Berwick put the brewery up for sale in 1858. It was rumoured at the time that they had lost GBP 15,000 since an uncle had left the company. The brewery was purchased by William Younger & Co who remodelled the property into Holyrood Brewery.
Lot 255
A WILLIAM IV GILDED SNUFF BOX of oblong form, the hinged lid with crest and presentation inscription from members of the "Doncaster News Room", dated 1837, within a border of flowers, similar foliate moulded bellied sides and engine turned base, 3 1/4" wide, marks for Nathaniel Mills, Birmingham 1835, 5ozs 6dwts
Lot 82
A MEISSEN STYLE PORCELAIN CANDLE HOLDER OR INK WELL with matching saucer, painted with courting couples in a landscape and with mask head moulded decoration, probably decorated outside the factory and with cancelled blue crossed swords mark, together with a circular floral decorated porcelain box and cover (restored); and a replica oval snuff box and cover, printed 'Fishmongers Hall' pattern (3).
Lot 303
A miscellaneous group of silver items to include. A pair of apostle serving spoons, Sheffield 1900, a pair of berry spoons, London 1767; a large pair of plated serving spoons with figural terminals; eight each fish knives and forks; two apostle coffee spoons; three small patch boxes; a continental snuff box; a Victorian vesta case and a card case; four thimbles and a small folding knife (Qty).
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