Sale 7526
London
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27 June 2007
Price realised
GBP 4,800
Estimate
This lot is offered without a reserve
A SET OF THREE VICTORIAN SILVER-MOUNTED GLASS DRESSING TABLE JARS MARK OF THOMAS WHITEHOUSE, LONDON, 1894 Each lobed glass body with a plain silver cover, two with pull-off covers and one with a hinged cover, engraved with initials below a coronet, marked on cover bezels or inside cover and on silver-mounted rims the rims further engraved 'N 1545-S.M' 5½ in. (14 cm.) high and smaller The initials are those of Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, (1869-1947). (3)
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