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A Presentation Snuff Box to a Volunteer Officer
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A Presentation Snuff Box to a Volunteer Officer

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A Presentation Snuff Box to a Volunteer Officer
A fine silver snuff box (town-letter of hallmark indistinct) with engraved decoration on sides, base and lid, the latter mounted with a gold oval plaque inscribed The Gift of the 5th Battn. Compy. 1st Regt. Aberdeen Volunteers to Captain Thomas Burnell as a mark of their esteem
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Lot Essay

The title 1st Aberdeen Volunteers was used by the regiment only from 1803 to 1808. The date-letter of the hallmark is g, which would indicate either Birmingham 1804 or Edinburgh 1812. The maker's mark is SP which may indicate Samuel Pemberton, a Birmingham silversmith who was entered in 1784. This would indicate that the 1804 date is more probable.
Thomas Burnell appears in the 1804 Yeomanry and Volunteer List as a Captain in the 1st Aberdeen, with seniority from 21st May 1803.