Silver & Collectors' Items - Day 1 and Day 2 - 22nd January 2013
Lot 683
A George II Scottish silver snuff box
Estimate £500 - £600 | Hammer £800
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Description
A George II Scottish silver snuff box,
maker's mark of I.M with a figure between, for James Mitchell, Edinburgh circa 1740,
oblong form, the flush hinged cover with engraved decoration and engraved with an armorial shield, the body with trailing foliate decoration, height 5.3cm, approx. weight 2.5oz.
For an article on this mark see 'The figure-between goldsmiths of eighteenth-century Edinburgh', by Robert and Janice Dietert, Silver Studies, The Journal of The Silver Society, Number 21, 2006, pages 49-58.