A GEORGE III TWO-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX

BY ALEXANDER JAMES STRACHAN, MARKED WITH THE ENGLISH POST-1798 STANDARD MARKS FOR 18 CARAT GOLD, THE ENGLISH STANDARD MARK FOR GOLD 1798-1974, THE LONDON ASSAY MARK FOR 1798-1821, THE LONDON DATE LETTER 1810/1811 AND THE ENGLISH DUTY MARK FOR GOLD 1798-1821

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A GEORGE III TWO-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY ALEXANDER JAMES STRACHAN, MARKED WITH THE ENGLISH POST-1798 STANDARD MARKS FOR 18 CARAT GOLD, THE ENGLISH STANDARD MARK FOR GOLD 1798-1974, THE LONDON ASSAY MARK FOR 1798-1821, THE LONDON DATE LETTER 1810/1811 AND THE ENGLISH DUTY MARK FOR GOLD 1798-1821
rectangular box with rounded corners, the cover, sides and base engine-turned with panels of wavy moiré pattern within polished gold borders, the cover with a chased band of flowers and foliage on a sablé ground, the sides divided by polished gold pilasters, slightly raised thumbpiece, the interior cover engraved with an inscription below four crests, in fitted red leather case
3 in. (75 mm.) wide
3½ oz. (100 gr.)
The inscription reads 'PRESENTED To Captain L.H. Vassall ROYAL NAVY by his highly esteemed and excellent Friend T Chetham Strode Esq. OF SOUTH HILL HOUSE 1827' One of the crests is that of Montevideo, South America. (2)

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Captain Sir Spencer Lambart Hunter Vassall, K.H., R.N, was born in 1799, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Spencer Thomas Vassall and Catherine Brandreth Backhouse Evans. Lieutenant-Colonel Vassall was killed at the taking of Montevideo on the 7th February 1807. His widow Catherine subsequently married Thomas Chetham Strode of Southill House, co. Somerset in 1816 who presented the box to his step-son in 1827. Thomas sadly died in the same year. Captain Vassall enjoyed a distinguished naval career eventually becoming a captain in January 1837. He was knighted in 1838 and died in London in 1846.