AN EARLY VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT AND HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, CIRCA 1840
Oval, the sides and base set with panels of silver-gilt engine-turning within applied foliate borders, the cover set with a panel of brown and white agate; together with a cartouche-shaped parcel-gilt silver-mounted serpentine snuff box, the hinged cover set with a cartouche, engraved with initials below a Bishop's mitre; and an oblong gilt-metal mounted hardstone box with two hinged covers
4 in. (112 mm.) wide and smaller
AN EARLY VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT AND HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
APPARENTLY UNMARKED, CIRCA 1840
Oval, the sides and base set with panels of silver-gilt engine-turning within applied foliate borders, the cover set with a panel of brown and white agate; together with a cartouche-shaped parcel-gilt silver-mounted serpentine snuff box, the hinged cover set with a cartouche, engraved with initials below a Bishop's mitre; and an oblong gilt-metal mounted hardstone box with two hinged covers
4 in. (112 mm.) wide and smaller
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