Sale 9840
London, South Kensington
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12 May 2004
Price realised
GBP 657
Estimate
Two Victorian brass tobacco tavern boxes One with aperture for coin to the cover 10in. (25.4cm.) wide A brass spot hammered tobacco jar, the cover surmounted with a miniature pipe, another similar copper jar, a pewter jar with underside stamped DIXON & SONS SHEFFIELD 127 and a lacquered wood jar (6)
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: Peter Hornsby, Collecting Antique Copper and Brass, Mooreland Publishing Co. Ltd., 1989. A related tavern box is illustrated (see page 248, fig. 569.), dated circa 1840.
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