A Victorian brass rectangular needle case with double hinged folding flap, raised with a portrait within an oval, inscribed EMPRESS NEEDLE CASE, the reverse stamped RICHARD WYERS IMPROVED PATENTED NEEDLECASE.

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A Victorian brass rectangular needle case with double hinged folding flap, raised with a portrait within an oval, inscribed EMPRESS NEEDLE CASE, the reverse stamped RICHARD WYERS IMPROVED PATENTED NEEDLECASE.

Literature

Victorian Brass Needlecases, Estelle Horowitz & Ruth Mann, 1990, plates 40, 84.

Lot Essay

This needlecase commemorated the appointment of Queen Victoria as Empress of India.

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