A French Louis XV two colour gold oblong snuff box, maker's mark 'PD' with devices between and above, indistinct date letter, .916 standard discharge mark for Paris 1768-1774, with engine turned panels and lappet borders, the sides with swagged column dividers, 9cm (3.5in) long, 114.8g handwritten note inside reads 'Gold snuffbox The property of Walter Spencer Stanhope MP said to have been a well known & popular snuffbox in the time of Wm Pitt'. This seems to refer to Walter Spencer-Stanhope (1749-1822), of Horsforth and Leeds, Yorkshire. He was a politician and industrialist whose family fortune had been made through the iron trade. He was a supporter of William Pitt the younger and of William Wilberforce.
A French Louis XV two colour gold oblong snuff box, maker's mark 'PD' with devices between and above, indistinct date letter, .916 standard discharge mark for Paris 1768-1774, with engine turned panels and lappet borders, the sides with swagged column dividers, 9cm (3.5in) long, 114.8g handwritten note inside reads 'Gold snuffbox The property of Walter Spencer Stanhope MP said to have been a well known & popular snuffbox in the time of Wm Pitt'. This seems to refer to Walter Spencer-Stanhope (1749-1822), of Horsforth and Leeds, Yorkshire. He was a politician and industrialist whose family fortune had been made through the iron trade. He was a supporter of William Pitt the younger and of William Wilberforce.
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