Lot 82
82
A lead tobacco box

Details
A lead tobacco box
of octagonal outline, traces of gilt decoration, with finial to the cover modelled as a bush, panels to the sides cast with cornucopiae between bands of stylised foliage, the interior with press cover, English, 19th century -- 4in.(10cm.) wide

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Seymour Lindsay, Iron and brass Implements of the English House, Tiranti, London 1970, page 68.

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