ISERLOHN, JOHANN HEINRICH HAMER, AFTER 1757

Details

A German brass tobacco box
Iserlohn, Johann Heinrich Hamer, after 1757
The lid decorated with a radiating sun and a crescent moon within arabesque scrolls and signed HAMER, the base depicting the battle of Lobositz (1756) and the siege of Prague (1757) flanked by the portrait of Frederick the Great and the Arms of Prussia, signed I.H.HAMER
15.5cm wide
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Lot Essay

The battle of Lobositz, 1st of October 1756, was one of the first of the Seven Years War. the Prussians met the Saxons in battle on the morning of the 1st of October. After an inconclusive battle both sides retrenched, the Saxons finally surrendered on the 14th of October.

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