Johannes Combrink
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ZAR 10 000 - 12 000
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Starting at ZAR 9 500
Location
Cape Town
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About this Item
Cape Colony
A Cape silver snuff box, Johannes Combrink, c.1814-1853
octagonal, the hinged cover with shield-shaped cartouche indistinctly engraved with 'MEJ', wrigglework engraving throughout, gilt interior, interior engraved with 'SCC', 75g
width: 6,3cm
Notes
Johannes Combrink, born in the Cape and baptised on 3 June 1781, was the son of Jan (Johannes) Combrink (born 1751) and Johanna Elisabeth Essler. He married Aurelia Wilhelmina Lotter on 5 April 1807 and remained active as a silversmith in Cape Town until his death on 9 November 1853. Combrink began his trade at 29 Dorp Street (1814–1825), then worked from 28 Dorp Street (1826–1829), 47 Dorp Street (1830–1841), and finally 50 Dorp Street (1842–1853). In records from 1814 to 1829, his surname also appears as "Kombrink."
Stephan Welz (1976) Cape Silver and Silversmiths, Cape Town: AA Balkema, page 130.
The engraved shield decoration on the cover was often used by Combrink.
Provenance
Private Collection.
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