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A SWISS OR GERMAN VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX
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A SWISS OR GERMAN VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX

PROBABLY BY DANIEL MARCHAND UND COMPAGNON, MARKED, GENEVA OR HANAU, CIRCA 1775

Fermé6 June 2017

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GBP 3,750

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A SWISS OR GERMAN VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX
PROBABLY BY DANIEL MARCHAND UND COMPAGNON, MARKED, GENEVA OR HANAU, CIRCA 1775
oval box, the cover, sides and base set with panels of reeded engine-turning stamped at intervals with pellets within chased frames and rope-twist outer borders, the four sablé volute pilasters with chased vari-colour gold foliage, the interior cover engraved with an inscription
2½ in. (65 mm.) wide
2¼ oz. (72 gr.)
The inscription reads 'Presented by / H R H The Duke of Cambridge / to the / Hon Nellie Bass / on her marriage with / Mr Baillie of Dochfour, / Jany / 31. 1894'

Note du spécialiste

Nellie Lisa Bass, Baroness Burton of Burton-on-Trent and of Rangemore, was born in 1873. She was the daughter of Michael Arthur Bass, 1st Baron Burton of Burton-on-Trent and of Rangemore and Harriet Georgina Thornewill, and descended from William Bass, who founded the brewery business of Bass & Co in Burton upon Trent in 1777. In 1894 she married Colonel James Evan Bruce Baillie (d. 1931) of Dochfour in Inverness-shire. He was the Member of Parliament for Inverness-shire between 1895 and 1900 and gained the rank of Honorary Colonel in the service of the Inverness-shire Battalion, Royal Horse Artillery. After her first husband's death Nellie married as her second husband Major William Eugene Melles (d. 1953). For a discussion on the goldsmith Daniel Marchand and his marks see L. Seelig, Eighteenth century Hanau gold boxes, Silver Society of Canada Journal 2015, pp. 32-55.