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Click here to subscribeA CIRCULAR PAPIER MACHE SNUFF BOX 19th Century, the cover painted with a lady, in breezy weather, holding her white frilled cape, also a rectangular papier mache snuff box with mother of pearl inlay, a treen snuff box in the shape of a shoe, a moss agate and plated oblong tooth pick box, a tortoiseshell and gilt metal box and a Mauchlin ware egg shaped box, 'Scotts Memorial' and 'Holyrood Palace' (6).
A mixed lot:- a rare late 18th century thimble with a screw-off base revealing a scent bottle (glass A/F), a continental bloodred enamelled tubular scent (chip), two miniature mounted red glass bottles, a larger red glass example, a mounted nut scent, a nut, a brass mounted shell snuff box and a porcelain pepperette. (9)
An early 19th century Neo-Classical snuff box, of circular shape, the lid mounted with a micromosaic plaque depicting the Capitoline Doves known as "Pliny's Doves" signed in monogram 'G.N' in a gilt frame and set into a granite surround and base, the interior bearing a gilt plate engraved "To Lieu" * Charles Moore R.N. for Heroism and Humanity at Calais on the 16th April 1817" * elements of damage to the granite.
A late 19th century German Imperial presentation jewell gold snuff box, cartouche shaped with waisted sides, engraved and decorated with applied rocaille floral scrollwork, the base recessed and engraved with the Traperal eagle on a trompe l'oeuiel ground simulating wood graining, the cover applied with a diamond monogram "W" for Emperor Wilhelm II with crown above and entwined with a diamond floral spray (several stones deficient) within a fine beaded border on a wood grained ground the rose coloured
Sold by order of a descendant of the Duke of Newcastle. An 18th century gold mounted dendritic agate snuff box, in pale moccha brown of cartouche form with bombe sides decanted with an enamelled border, thumbpiece and vertical straps (damaged) unmarked probably English c.1740. 3.35" (8.3 cm) wide overall.
A Scottish horn snuff mull and other items, the snuff mull with inscribed white metal mounts, a silver cigarette holder case, Birmingham 1898, a round walnut box, the cover painted with a tree, a near eastern pen box decorated with figures in Persian style, and a miscellaneous collection of boxes and other items
Five George III and later small tortoiseshell boxes, comprising; an oblong snuff box with gold mounts, 5.5cm (2.25 in), another rectangular with a leaf chased and pique clout border, 5.5cm (2.25 in), another with two compartments, a reeded and gold banded border with fluted corners, the top with a further beaded cover with a monogrammed gold panel, 6.25cm (2.5 in), another in the form of a stool on ball feet, 5.5cm (2.25 in), and an oblong pique pose pill box decorated with fleur de lys, 5cm (2 in)
A Victorian mother-of-pearl rectangular card case, the front engraved with bold leaf scroll and floral ornament, 4.25ins x 2.75ins, one other Victorian mother-of-pearl card case inlaid with lozenge shaped panels, 4ins x 3ins, a Victorian horn and tortoiseshell lidded oval snuff box, 2.75ins x 1.25ins, a plain Victorian horn oval snuff box, 3.25ins x 2ins, a Victorian tortoiseshell and gilt brass mounted purse of shaped outline, and two other snuff boxes, various
Charles James Fox (1749-1806); a silvered brass snuff box, his portrait in relief, with key pattern border, 2.125 in diameter; together with a nickel box, the cover embossed with a figure of a soldier firing his musket, inscribed, Best Shot at Ball Practice, Given by the Society for the Defence of the Realm, circa 1810, 2.125 in diameter.
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