VICTORIAN SILVER PLATED BRIGHT CUT ENGRAVED SNUFF BOX - BOOK FORM
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:616244 | Product: Snuff Box |
| Composition: Silver Plate | Age: 1850-1899 |
VICTORIANSILVER PLATEDBRIGHT CUTENGRAVEDSNUFF BOX
Estimated tohave been made in the mid Victorian period this superbly decorated snuff box ofbook form sports bright cut engraved stylised floral damask to the covers and aneat banded design representing the spine. The piece has a robust hinge and pushfit closing. The silvercover is still gleaming and ample with only very minimal signs of age/use tothe outer. There are some rubs to the gilding ‘page edges’. To the inner of... thebox it is still tidy but there are signs of use and age having a thinnercoating from at the first and possessing patina to the perimeter creases as tobe expected. Displaysbeautifully. No maker’smarks. Height: 11.0cm/4.3”Width: 7.5cm/3”Depth: 1.6cm/1”
Estimated tohave been made in the mid Victorian period this superbly decorated snuff box ofbook form sports bright cut engraved stylised floral damask to the covers and aneat banded design representing the spine. The piece has a robust hinge and pushfit closing. The silvercover is still gleaming and ample with only very minimal signs of age/use tothe outer. There are some rubs to the gilding ‘page edges’. To the inner of... thebox it is still tidy but there are signs of use and age having a thinnercoating from at the first and possessing patina to the perimeter creases as tobe expected. Displaysbeautifully. No maker’smarks. Height: 11.0cm/4.3”Width: 7.5cm/3”Depth: 1.6cm/1”
