A CONTINENTAL STONE-SET GOLD PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX German or Swiss, struck with inventory number 281 Cartouche-shaped box with baluster sides, the sides and base engraved with c-scrolls, flowers and foliage, the cover and front side cast with foliage, scrolls and flowerheads, with remnants of blue enamelling, the cover centred with an oval hand-coloured photograph of Emperor Wilhelm II of Prussia as a young man in uniform, wearing numerous orders including the sash of the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, within a glass-stone set border flanked by eight larger silver-mounted glass-stones 3.11/16 in. (91 mm.) wide
A CONTINENTAL STONE-SET GOLD PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX German or Swiss, struck with inventory number 281 Cartouche-shaped box with baluster sides, the sides and base engraved with c-scrolls, flowers and foliage, the cover and front side cast with foliage, scrolls and flowerheads, with remnants of blue enamelling, the cover centred with an oval hand-coloured photograph of Emperor Wilhelm II of Prussia as a young man in uniform, wearing numerous orders including the sash of the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, within a glass-stone set border flanked by eight larger silver-mounted glass-stones 3.11/16 in. (91 mm.) wide
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