A GERMAN JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD ROYAL PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX HANAU, CIRCA 1850, THE FLANGE ENGRAVED WITH INVENTORY NUMBER 2503 cartouche-shaped box, the cover and baluster sides engraved, cast and embossed with floral scrolls, the cover applied with an oval translucent blue guilloché enamel plaque set with old and rose-cut diamond studded initials 'FW' for Prince Frederick William of Prussia (1797-1888), a royal coronet above, flanked by six enamel and silver-mounted old-cut diamonds, the base centred with a reserve engraved with a posy of flowers surrounded by foliate and c-shaped scrolls on a sablé ground, the interior of the cover engraved with an inscription 3½ in. (90 mm.) wide The inscription reads ' Presented / To / Sir John Key Bart. / Chamberlain of the City of London / By / His Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia / (Afterwards Emperor of Germany) / On the occasion of his visit to / Her Majesty Queen Victoria / 19th July 1857'
A GERMAN JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD ROYAL PRESENTATION SNUFF-BOX HANAU, CIRCA 1850, THE FLANGE ENGRAVED WITH INVENTORY NUMBER 2503 cartouche-shaped box, the cover and baluster sides engraved, cast and embossed with floral scrolls, the cover applied with an oval translucent blue guilloché enamel plaque set with old and rose-cut diamond studded initials 'FW' for Prince Frederick William of Prussia (1797-1888), a royal coronet above, flanked by six enamel and silver-mounted old-cut diamonds, the base centred with a reserve engraved with a posy of flowers surrounded by foliate and c-shaped scrolls on a sablé ground, the interior of the cover engraved with an inscription 3½ in. (90 mm.) wide The inscription reads ' Presented / To / Sir John Key Bart. / Chamberlain of the City of London / By / His Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia / (Afterwards Emperor of Germany) / On the occasion of his visit to / Her Majesty Queen Victoria / 19th July 1857'
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