A Victorian silver snuff box

A Victorian silver snuff box,

by Charles Rawlins & William Sumner, London 1839,

rounded rectangular form, the cover with central vacant cartouche flanked by scene of a pointer and game birds on an intensely engraved rocaille ground of shells and scrolls, the sides with similar decoration, the base with a tiger slaying an antelope, the gilt interior engraved with a presentation inscription: "To Dr Cyner as a small acknowledgement of his Professional Skill & extreme kindness & sympathy in time of trouble from his very sincere and obliged friend I. W. Tully August 1857," length 9.4cm, together with an ebonised and silver-inlaid snuff box, with lattice and star decoration, length 8.2cm. (2)