A GEORGE III SILVER SNUFF BOX, SILVER-MOUNTED CORAL TEETHER, A NUTMEG-GRATER AND A VICTORIAN SILVER-MOUNTED SNUFF BOTTLE, with maker's marks of: the navette form snuff box with geometrically engraved rims, with part hinged cover engraved with initials, gilt interior--London, 1781, apparently R. Nicholls--3½in. (8.8cm.) long, the foliate engraved, and initialled, whistle hung with eight (unmarked), bells, the stem above coral also engraved--Joseph Taylor, Birmingham, 1810--5in. (12.7cm.) long, the oval nutmeg grater with slip on cover and base, iron fixed grater, cover shield engraved--T. Willmore, Birmingham, 1795, the last with hobnail and lozenge glass cut bottle with silver neck mount, inset with silver-gilt snuff-spoon, the silver cap crest engraved--3¼in. (8.2cm.) high, gross weight, weighable silver 4oz. (4)

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A GEORGE III SILVER SNUFF BOX, SILVER-MOUNTED CORAL TEETHER, A NUTMEG-GRATER AND A VICTORIAN SILVER-MOUNTED SNUFF BOTTLE, with maker's marks of: the navette form snuff box with geometrically engraved rims, with part hinged cover engraved with initials, gilt interior--London, 1781, apparently R. Nicholls--3½in. (8.8cm.) long, the foliate engraved, and initialled, whistle hung with eight (unmarked), bells, the stem above coral also engraved--Joseph Taylor, Birmingham, 1810--5in. (12.7cm.) long, the oval nutmeg grater with slip on cover and base, iron fixed grater, cover shield engraved--T. Willmore, Birmingham, 1795, the last with hobnail and lozenge glass cut bottle with silver neck mount, inset with silver-gilt snuff-spoon, the silver cap crest engraved--3¼in. (8.2cm.) high, gross weight, weighable silver 4oz. (4)

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