拍品 90 A
90 A
a dutch brass tobacco box

18TH CENTURY

細節
a dutch brass tobacco box
18th Century
Engraved on the front side Reght Door Zee, the cover with eternal calendar and dated 1762, the underside with scale and ratio, engraved geen konst maar reyckdom kan men verliese daar om wilt konst voor reijckdom kiese
17.8cm. long

拍品專文

This tobacco box is a fine example of the boxes designed to be used as a perpetual calendar and as a tool to register a ship's speed in seamiles. The inscription Reght Door Zee refers to one of the earliest Amsterdam nautical schools "Het schip regt door zee", owned by Pieter Holm who founded it in 1737 and who sold to his students charts and instruments like this box.

See illustration