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PROBABLY AUSTRIAN OR GERMAN, CIRCA 1790/1800
Details
A GOLD-MOUNTED HARDSTONE SNUFF-BOX
PROBABLY AUSTRIAN OR GERMAN, CIRCA 1790/1800
Octagonal box, the cover and base mounted ga-jour with semi-translucent green-brown agate panels, polished gold sides and slightly raised reeded mounts
2 5/8 in. (66 mm.) wide
PROBABLY AUSTRIAN OR GERMAN, CIRCA 1790/1800
Octagonal box, the cover and base mounted ga-jour with semi-translucent green-brown agate panels, polished gold sides and slightly raised reeded mounts
2 5/8 in. (66 mm.) wide
Literature
Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975), Catalogue of Snuff Boxes at Althorp, 1937, no. 52.
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