Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 2 - 6th October 2021

Lot 760

A Victorian Scottish silver-mounted agate snuff box

Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £420

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Description

A Victorian Scottish silver-mounted agate snuff box,

by James Nasmyth & Co, Edinburgh 1850,

rounded rectangular form, engine-turned sides and base, foliate scroll thumb-piece, the hinged cover set with an agate panel, length 5.8cm.

Provenance: purchased from Sotheby's Collonade Sale, London 22 October 1998.