A GEORGE I SILVER OVAL TOBACCO BOX
MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, LONDON, 1714

MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, LONDON, 1714

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MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, LONDON, 1714
Hinged cover engraved with a table set with an octagonal candlestick with flaming candle with small armorial shield to its base, crossed clay pipes laid on paper containing tobacco, a goblet and wicker-bound wine flask all below an eagle in flight overhead , holding in its beak a motto scroll Ne Quid Nimis (Not too much of anything), base engraved with a large roundel bearing a reversed and interlaced monogram
4 in. long (10.2 cm.)
3.5 oz. (109 gm.)
Literature
See Eric Delieb's "Silver Boxes", P.55 for a box of same design apparently dated 1700

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