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AMERICAN, MID-19TH CENTURY
Details
An ivory and mahogany decorated memory box**
American, mid-19th century
with a trapezoid hinged lid, a single compartment with a mirror (loose), and decorated on the exterior with scalloped edged ivory trim, and diamond shapes, American shield, crescent moon and calvary sword, all in ivory, and a pair of daguerreotype images of a man and a woman, also framed in scalloped edge ivory. With escutcheon (key missing) and other details.
8 x 11¼ x 3½ in. (20.3 x 28.6 x 8.9 cm.)
American, mid-19th century
with a trapezoid hinged lid, a single compartment with a mirror (loose), and decorated on the exterior with scalloped edged ivory trim, and diamond shapes, American shield, crescent moon and calvary sword, all in ivory, and a pair of daguerreotype images of a man and a woman, also framed in scalloped edge ivory. With escutcheon (key missing) and other details.
8 x 11¼ x 3½ in. (20.3 x 28.6 x 8.9 cm.)