Details
Each slightly tapering of octagonal section, the cover and sides engine-turned with horizontal reeding stamped with pellets on one and the other with stylised geometric trelliswork with pellets, the sablé borders chased with two-colour gold trailing foliage, the lid faceted, one matrix blank, the other with initial G
412 in. (11.5 cm.) long
2 oz. 11 dwt. (80 gr.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 17 November 1943, lot 149A (for the one engraved with initial G),
Albert Marber (1900-1960), then by descent.
Special notice
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
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