Sale 1024
New York
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19 April 2002
Price realised
USD 13,145
Estimate
A SWISS GOLD AND ENAMEL SNUFF BOX Circa 1780, with prestige marks (Grandjean 548) Rectangular, with canted corners, the cover, sides and base with blue guilloche ground, the borders and canted corners with vari-colored enameled berry vines, the cover centering an oval enamel panel of a young man and two elders by a harbor, marked inside base, cover and bezel, the bezel with later Dutch and French control marks 2½in. (63mm.) long
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