Important South African & International Art, Furniture, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 17 March 2014
Cape, Colonial, Oriental & Continental Silver, Furniture & Decorative Arts
About this Item
A Scottish Provincial silver-mounted cowrie shell snuff box, apparently unmarked, 19th century
the shell set in a scalloped border, the hinged base engraved with the initials 'JH' flanked by a thistle wreath, enclosed by an engraved leaf border, 7,5cm long
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