Fine Silver and Objects of Vertu - 29th April 2015

Lot 465

A Victorian presentation silver table snuff box

Estimate £400 - £450

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Description

A Victorian presentation silver table snuff box,

by Frederick Marson, Birmingham 1856,

rectangular form, wavy-edge scroll border and engraved foliate scroll decoration, gilded interior, the hinged cover inscribed, ' Presented to James Ferguson, by a few of his friends as an acknowledgement of his services in abolishing the Old Assessment of Road Money in the Parish of Carluke,1869,' length 9.4cm, approx. weight 5.8oz.