COLLECTION OF SILVER TRINKET BOXES
19TH / 20TH CENTURY
Auction: Property from the Estate of Virginia Fortune Ryan Ogilvy, Dowager Countess of Airlie | Wed 3rd Sept at 10am | Lots 45 to 170
Description
to include a dressing table box, Harold Child, London 1905, of circular form, the pull-off lid with niello border and monogram to centre; a Dutch snuff box, with import marks for Bernard Mueller and a smaller unmarked; together with a mixed-metal vesta case, engraved crest to corner a lid, modelled as Frederick II (the Great) King of Prussia, with hair inset to a panel to the reverse; a patch box with the Austro-Hungarian emblem embossed to lid and an unmarked model of a bird box (7)
Dimensions
the largest 7cm wide, 7oz (weighable silver)
Provenance
Property from the Estate of Virginia Fortune Ryan Ogilvy, Dowager Countess of Airlie