Fine Silver and Objects of Vertu - 25th April 2017

Lot 435

A Victorian silver engraved 'castle-top' card case

Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £350

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Description

A Victorian silver engraved 'castle-top' card case, Warwick Castle,

by Nathaniel Mills, Birmingham 1843,

rectangular form, the front with a view of the Castle, scroll borders, engine-turned tartan decoration, the reverse with similar decoration, and with an initialled cartouche, length 9.8cm, approx. weight 2.2oz.

Provenance: purchased from Christie's, South Kensington, Objects of Vertu, 12 May 1998, lot 210.