A GERMAN JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY CARL MARTIN WEISHAUPT & SÖHNE (FL. FROM 1837), MARKED, HANAU, CIRCA 1850, FLANGE STAMPED 5285 AND ENGRAVED 8544 AND 12148
A GERMAN JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX BY CARL MARTIN WEISHAUPT & SÖHNE (FL. FROM 1837), MARKED, HANAU, CIRCA 1850, FLANGE STAMPED 5285 AND ENGRAVED 8544 AND 12148 cartouche-shaped box, the cover, lobed baluster sides and base engraved, cast and embossed with floral and arabesque scrolls, the cover partly enamelled in translucent dark-blue on an engine-turned ground and set with a carved amethyst-quartz portrait relief of a lady, within a silver-mounted amethyst-set frame flanked by three silver-mounted amethysts on each side 4½ in. (115 mm.) wide
A GERMAN JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX
BY CARL MARTIN WEISHAUPT & SÖHNE (FL. FROM 1837), MARKED, HANAU, CIRCA 1850, FLANGE STAMPED 5285 AND ENGRAVED 8544 AND 12148
A GERMAN JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD SNUFF-BOX BY CARL MARTIN WEISHAUPT & SÖHNE (FL. FROM 1837), MARKED, HANAU, CIRCA 1850, FLANGE STAMPED 5285 AND ENGRAVED 8544 AND 12148 cartouche-shaped box, the cover, lobed baluster sides and base engraved, cast and embossed with floral and arabesque scrolls, the cover partly enamelled in translucent dark-blue on an engine-turned ground and set with a carved amethyst-quartz portrait relief of a lady, within a silver-mounted amethyst-set frame flanked by three silver-mounted amethysts on each side 4½ in. (115 mm.) wide
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