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Lot Essay
The inscription reads:
Presented by the Trustees of the Bolivar Mining Association to Joseph Edye Esqr as an Acknowledgement for the zealous and important Services he has so kindly rendered to the Association, 1825
John Northam, along with A.J. Strachan, made gold boxes for the Royal goldsmiths and retailers Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. His work is often distinguished by heavily cast and finely chased ornament, as on the present box. (See Charles Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, 1991, cat. no. 118, pp. 335-337.)
Presented by the Trustees of the Bolivar Mining Association to Joseph Edye Esqr as an Acknowledgement for the zealous and important Services he has so kindly rendered to the Association, 1825
John Northam, along with A.J. Strachan, made gold boxes for the Royal goldsmiths and retailers Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. His work is often distinguished by heavily cast and finely chased ornament, as on the present box. (See Charles Truman, The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, 1991, cat. no. 118, pp. 335-337.)