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A Continental gilt-lined novelty box
modelled as a book, the two covers decorated with children wearing 18th Century costume surrounded by arabesques, the spine with arabesques incorporating a vacant rococo cartouche, realistically-engraved with leaves and with a hasp fastener pierced with arabesques, bearing import marks for London 1898 - 4¾in. (12cm.), 9.25oz.
See Plate 4
modelled as a book, the two covers decorated with children wearing 18th Century costume surrounded by arabesques, the spine with arabesques incorporating a vacant rococo cartouche, realistically-engraved with leaves and with a hasp fastener pierced with arabesques, bearing import marks for London 1898 - 4¾in. (12cm.), 9.25oz.
See Plate 4