Live Auction 7731Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A CONTINENTAL GOLD SNUFF-BOX
Lot 168 THE PROPERTY OF JAIME ORTIZ-PATINO
(LOTS 126-127 and 168-181)

A CONTINENTAL GOLD SNUFF-BOX

MAKER'S MARK 'LFT', PROBABLY HANAU CIRCA 1790, WITH PRESTIGE MARKS

Closed2 June 2009

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GBP 2,500

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A CONTINENTAL GOLD SNUFF-BOX
MAKER'S MARK 'LFT', PROBABLY HANAU CIRCA 1790, WITH PRESTIGE MARKS
Rectangular box, the cover, sides and base with horizontal engine turning, framed by thin coin-pattern border
3½ in. (90 mm.) wide
3 3/8 oz. (96 gr.)

Specialist note

It has been suggested that the maker 'LFT' could correspond to 'Les Frères Toussaint' in Hanau. For further information, see L. Seelig, Golddosen des 18. Jahrhunderts aus dem Besitz der Fürsten von Thurn und Taxis, Munich, 2007, pp. 286-7.