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BEARING SPURIOUS MARKS FOR FABERGÉ, POSSIBLY GERMAN, FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY
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A CONTINENTAL GOLD-MOUNTED GREY AGATE SNUFF-BOX
BEARING SPURIOUS MARKS FOR FABERGÉ, POSSIBLY GERMAN, FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY
Oblong with canted corners, the sides applied with diamond mounted gold and silver drapery swags, the base applied with an openwork mount, the hinged cover with an egg-and-dart border and with an applied twisted drapery motif and a central foiled cut paste within a diamond border, marked on rim and with French import marks, contained in a fitted purple velvet case
3 3/8 in. (85 mm.) wide
BEARING SPURIOUS MARKS FOR FABERGÉ, POSSIBLY GERMAN, FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY
Oblong with canted corners, the sides applied with diamond mounted gold and silver drapery swags, the base applied with an openwork mount, the hinged cover with an egg-and-dart border and with an applied twisted drapery motif and a central foiled cut paste within a diamond border, marked on rim and with French import marks, contained in a fitted purple velvet case
3 3/8 in. (85 mm.) wide
Provenance
Given on the occasion of the marriage of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, to Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon on 6 May 1960, by John Hay Whitney (1904-1982), American Ambassador to London from 1957-1960, and his second wife Betsey Cushing Roosevelt (d. 1998).
Special notice
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