A novelty Victorian silver-mounted smoker's compendium, George Gibson London, 1881 modelled as a milkman's trolley, the milk churns acting as the spirit burner and taper holder, the chest for matches, the wooden frame with free-moving wheels and the applied word 'DRUID', also with a Patent Office Design Registry mark and engraved 'Lewis 20 St. James' St'14cm., 5 1/2in. longCondition reportOne of the wheels is a little stiff and does not rotate as freely as the other wheels. Minor scuffs and scratches to the wood and silver. Some of the nuts on the underside may be replacements. Some minor nibbles to the milk churn rims. The nut holding on the chest does not tighten fully. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
A novelty Victorian silver-mounted smoker's compendium, George Gibson London, 1881 modelled as a milkman's trolley, the milk churns acting as the spirit burner and taper holder, the chest for matches, the wooden frame with free-moving wheels and the applied word 'DRUID', also with a Patent Office Design Registry mark and engraved 'Lewis 20 St. James' St'14cm., 5 1/2in. longCondition reportOne of the wheels is a little stiff and does not rotate as freely as the other wheels. Minor scuffs and scratches to the wood and silver. Some of the nuts on the underside may be replacements. Some minor nibbles to the milk churn rims. The nut holding on the chest does not tighten fully. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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