Silver & Collectors' Items - 22nd and 23rd July - 22 Jul 2014
A Victorian presentation silver snuff box
A Victorian presentation silver snuff box,
by Rawlings and Summers, London 1842,
shaped rectangular form, the cover engraved with a boating scene with a town behind, and with a vacant cartouche, the base with a boating scene with a ruin castle in the foreground and a town and mountains behind, the interior inscribed 'Presented in testimony of esteem by the Catholic and Protestant Parishioners of Kilmactigue to the Reverend Patrick Hurst 27 April 1846', gilded interior, length 8.5cm, approx. weight 4.6oz.
Kilmactigue is a parish in County Sligo, Ireland.