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THE HARDSTONE BOX, ROME, CIRCA 1820
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THREE PILL-BOXES: ONE HARDSTONE WITH MICROMOSAIC
THE HARDSTONE BOX, ROME, CIRCA 1820
Oval silver-mounted red hardstone box with central oval micromosaic plaque depicting a riverscape with bridge and building, incorporated thumbpiece; together with, two circular pill-boxes with foliate borders to lids
1½in. (38mm.) wide; 1¼in. (32mm) and 1 5/16 in. (33 mm.) diam., respectively (3)
THE HARDSTONE BOX, ROME, CIRCA 1820
Oval silver-mounted red hardstone box with central oval micromosaic plaque depicting a riverscape with bridge and building, incorporated thumbpiece; together with, two circular pill-boxes with foliate borders to lids
1½in. (38mm.) wide; 1¼in. (32mm) and 1 5/16 in. (33 mm.) diam., respectively (3)
Literature
Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975), Catalogue of Snuff Boxes at Althorp, 1937, no. 68.
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