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A very early engraved silver-gilt musical snuffbox, Swiss, dated 1813, image 1
A very early engraved silver-gilt musical snuffbox, Swiss, dated 1813, image 2
A very early engraved silver-gilt musical snuffbox, Swiss, dated 1813, image 3
Lot 15

A very early engraved silver-gilt musical snuffbox,
Swiss, dated 1813,

18 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£6,000 - £9,000

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A very early engraved silver-gilt musical snuffbox, Swiss, dated 1813,

Numbered 147, Engraved to polished brass bedplate In Pre Désire, A Geneve fécit an 1813, with bass-left 23-part sectional comb teeth in twins, broad pinned cylinder playing single complex air, blued component screws, in marked case with highly polished interior, the outside with semi-circular fan-radial engine turning, edges and corners with leaf and thistle swag trails to all sides and underneath, start/stop pin to left-front corner, in a fitted case with key, 2 3/4 ins (7cm) wide

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