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SHAKESPEARIANA -- An English pierced and carved mulberry wood snuffbox of circular form, mid-19th century, probably by John Marshall, the lid carved with an 'S' in low relief and bearing the inscription: 'Shakespeare's Mulberry Wood', diameter 60mm.
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SHAKESPEARIANA -- An English pierced and carved mulberry wood snuffbox of circular form, mid-19th century, probably by John Marshall, the lid carved with an 'S' in low relief and bearing the inscription: 'Shakespeare's Mulberry Wood', diameter 60mm.

細節
SHAKESPEARIANA -- An English pierced and carved mulberry wood snuffbox of circular form, mid-19th century, probably by John Marshall, the lid carved with an 'S' in low relief and bearing the inscription: 'Shakespeare's Mulberry Wood', diameter 60mm.

The cult of carved memorials to Shakespeare had begun in the 18th century and continued into the 19th. For a discussion of the snuff boxes and other commemorative objects produced from the celebrated mulberry tree felled in his garden at New Place, see Helen R. Smith, David Garrick 1717-1779 (British Library, 1979), pp.24-30.
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.