A VICTORIAN SILVER SMOKER'S COMPANION
MARK OF WILLIAM FREDERICK WILLIAMS, LONDON, 1878, RETAILED BY HUSSEY AND KEYMER, 22 ST. JAMES'S STREET, LONDON
Humorously modelled as duelling frogs, each with glass eyes, one with detachable hand as lighter, the other with receptacle for wick, all on an oval base cast and chased with rockwork and engraved on each side with an inscription, marked on base, the base further engraved 'Hussey and Keymer, 22 St. James's Street', on green marble plinth
the base 9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) wide
The inscriptions read ' Von Louise Margarethe' and '20th Marz 1880'
A VICTORIAN SILVER SMOKER'S COMPANION
MARK OF WILLIAM FREDERICK WILLIAMS, LONDON, 1878, RETAILED BY HUSSEY AND KEYMER, 22 ST. JAMES'S STREET, LONDON
Humorously modelled as duelling frogs, each with glass eyes, one with detachable hand as lighter, the other with receptacle for wick, all on an oval base cast and chased with rockwork and engraved on each side with an inscription, marked on base, the base further engraved 'Hussey and Keymer, 22 St. James's Street', on green marble plinth
the base 9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) wide
The inscriptions read ' Von Louise Margarethe' and '20th Marz 1880'
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