Lot Essay
Another tobacco box of 1739 by the same maker from the Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann Collection was sold in these rooms 16 April 2002, lot 1070.
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MARK OF JACOBUS DAS, AMSTERDAM, 1727-34, ALSO STRUCK WITH REMARK FOR GOUDA
Details
A Dutch silver tobacco box
Mark of Jacobus Das, Amsterdam, 1727-34, also struck with remark for Gouda
The hinged cover of the oval box engraved with a family in an interior beside a pond with ducks, the base engraved with a basket of fruit and flowers, the hinge with applied cut-card decoration, the inside engraved with initials G H B B, marked inside
13 cm. long
162 gr.
Mark of Jacobus Das, Amsterdam, 1727-34, also struck with remark for Gouda
The hinged cover of the oval box engraved with a family in an interior beside a pond with ducks, the base engraved with a basket of fruit and flowers, the hinge with applied cut-card decoration, the inside engraved with initials G H B B, marked inside
13 cm. long
162 gr.
Provenance
With Reginald Davis, Oxford, 1943.
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