A matched pair of 18th century silver presentation tobacco boxes

A matched pair of 18th century silver presentation tobacco boxes,

one by Edward Cornock, London 1712, the second, by James Phipps I, London 1773,

plain oval form with a raised pull-off cover, each engraved with an armorial shield, the earlier example engraved to the underside 'Haycock of Reading', the latter engraved 'Ann Heycock', length 10cm, approx. total weight 9oz. (2)

The arms are those of Heycock.

Provenance: Britain-Defining The Interior, Bonhams, New Bond Street, 3 June 2015, lot 91.

Bonhams footnote: Joseph Heycock was an apothecary in Reading, through the engraver mistakenly used the wrong spelling. Joseph left his estate and this box to his younger brother Nicholas (1679-1763). Ann Heycock (1711-1788), was Nicholas's eldest daughter and it is though her brother John (1711-1803), of East Norton Leics, that these boxes then passed through five generations to the vendor at Bonhams.