A TWO-COLOUR GOLD ENGINE-TURNED OVAL SNUFF-BOX enhanced with scattered stylised four-petalled flowers, applied with rope-twist and green gold foliate friezes, the hinged cover applied with an oval plaque enamelled en plein with a 17th Century merchant in yellow robes and another figure wearing a pink coat, a dockyard scene with busy stevedores and several ships beyond, bearing several spurious french marks, probably Switzerland, early to mid 19th Century

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A TWO-COLOUR GOLD ENGINE-TURNED OVAL SNUFF-BOX enhanced with scattered stylised four-petalled flowers, applied with rope-twist and green gold foliate friezes, the hinged cover applied with an oval plaque enamelled en plein with a 17th Century merchant in yellow robes and another figure wearing a pink coat, a dockyard scene with busy stevedores and several ships beyond, bearing several spurious french marks, probably Switzerland, early to mid 19th Century
7.5 cm (101 gr)

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