A SILVER SPICETOWER, set on a rectangular base, pierced with a knobbed flower in the centre, one side inscribed in Hebrew with the owner's initials M. Sh., the stem consisting of four twisted and curved wires with a flowerhead-form knob at midpoint, the detachable rectangular spice-section bordered with leaf-tips above and below, pierced with floral motifs, a stork and a lion, the roof engraved with trelliswork, surmounted by a flowerhead, a screw-knob to open the spice-section and a pennant in the form of an animal's head, maker's mark N A, Eastern Europe, mid 19th Century