A Victorian silver castle-top card case

A Victorian silver castle-top card case, Eddistone lighthouse,

by Nathaniel Mills, Birmingham 1849,

rectangular form, scroll borders, the front with a raised scene of the lighthouse, with two ships behind, on a matted background, within foliate scroll decoration, the reverse with similar decoration and with a vacant cartouche, length 10cm, approx. weight 2.3oz.

This version of the lighthouse was the 3rd to be built and lasted from 1759 until it was replaced in 1877.