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    Works of Art from the Collection of S.A.R. La Principessa Reale Maria Gabriella Di Savoia

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    27 June 2007

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    • A SET OF THREE VICTORIAN SILVE
    Lot 283

    A SET OF THREE VICTORIAN SILVER-MOUNTED GLASS DRESSING TABLE JARS

    MARK OF THOMAS WHITEHOUSE, LONDON, 1894

    Price realised

    GBP 4,800

    Estimate

    GBP 300 - GBP 500

    This lot is offered without a reserve

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    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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