BY CARL MARTIN WEISHAUPT & SÖHNE, MARKED, HANAU, CIRCA 1860, STRUCK WITH INVENTORY NUMBERS '1960' AND '3599'

Details

A GERMAN JEWELLED AND ENAMELLED GOLD ROYAL PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX
by Carl Martin Weishaupt & Söhne, marked, Hanau, circa 1860, struck with inventory numbers '1960' and '3599'
Cartouche-shaped box, the lid and lobed baluster sides engraved, cast and embossed with floral scrolls partly enamelled in opaque blue, the cover applied with an oval convex translucent blue guilloché enamel plaque set with old and rose-cut diamond studded mirrored initials 'FW' a royal coronet above, within a dye-stamped floral gold rim, flanked by eight silver-mounted old-cut diamonds, the base centred with a reserve engraved with a posy of flowers surrounded by feathered, foliate and c-shaped scrolls
3¾ in. (95 mm.) wide

Provenance

Christie's, Geneva, 28 April 1976, lot 138.

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Lot Essay

The royal cypher may refer either to King Frederick William IV of Prussia (1795-1861, ruled 1840-1861) or his younger brother King Frederick William V (1797-1888) who acted as a regent after the stroke which incapacitated his elder brother in 1858, and succeeded him in 1861. King Frederick William V of Prussia was proclaimed German Emperor as William I in Versailles in 1871.

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