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A GERMAN AND PARCEL-ENAMELLED GOLD PRESENTATION SNUFF BOX
Lot 293

A GERMAN AND PARCEL-ENAMELLED GOLD PRESENTATION SNUFF BOX

BY CHARLES COLINS SONS (FL. C. 1825-AFTER 1870), MARKED, HANAU, CIRCA 1860, THE MINIATURE BY KRUGER

Closed27 November 2013

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A GERMAN AND PARCEL-ENAMELLED GOLD PRESENTATION SNUFF BOX
BY CHARLES COLINS SONS (FL. C. 1825-AFTER 1870), MARKED, HANAU, CIRCA 1860, THE MINIATURE BY KRUGER
cartouche-shaped box with lobed baluster sides, the cover, sides and base cast and engraved with foliate scrolls, flowers and leaves partly enamelled in opaque blue, the cover centred with a circular portrait miniature, on ivory, of German Emperor William I (1797-1888), in military uniform, within sablé gold frame stamped in gothic script 'DEM VERDIENSTE SEINE KRONE
3½ in. (90 mm.) wide

Christie's, Geneva, 13 November 1990, lot 113 (sitter mis-identified as the Emperor's older brother King Frederick William IV).

Specialist note

William I, King of Prussia (1861-1888) and first German Emperor (1871-1888) was the second son of King Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In 1829, he married Princess Augusta von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, with whom he had two children.