BY WILLIAM SUMMERS, LONDON, 1882
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An engraved silver snuff box
By William Summers, London, 1882
Fully chased and engraved with a design evoking Morris' 'Bird and Vine' pattern, oval cartouche engraved William Morris on his 50th Birthday from his Workpeople Merton Abbey and Oxford Street, (still containing snuff); sold with a printed broadsheet for the Kelmscott Fellowship promoting a lecture entitled News from Nowhere to be given by May Morris; A Note on the Morris Stained Glass Work, a privately printed pamphlet for Morris & Co, blue paper wrappers, 1913, and three printed flysheets for the Kelmscott Fellowship, promoting a Handicraft Exhibition in February 1920
2 7/8in. (7.4cm.) long
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By William Summers, London, 1882
Fully chased and engraved with a design evoking Morris' 'Bird and Vine' pattern, oval cartouche engraved William Morris on his 50th Birthday from his Workpeople Merton Abbey and Oxford Street, (still containing snuff); sold with a printed broadsheet for the Kelmscott Fellowship promoting a lecture entitled News from Nowhere to be given by May Morris; A Note on the Morris Stained Glass Work, a privately printed pamphlet for Morris & Co, blue paper wrappers, 1913, and three printed flysheets for the Kelmscott Fellowship, promoting a Handicraft Exhibition in February 1920
2 7/8in. (7.4cm.) long
Maker's mark