Wearable antique silver containers:
Cardcases, patchboxes, toothpick boxes, hip flasks, match-strikers etc
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A patent vesta case with chained wick-holder and patent closure by H.W.Dee, London 1872 initialled FJ and inscribed AC and also stamped 'JENNER & KNEWSTUB, 33 ST JAMES'S ST & 66 JERMYN ST' and elsewhere 'PATENT CLASP'. Price: £550.00 |
2587 |
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A heavy cased engine-turned cardcase with vacant cartouches by Joseph Willmore, Birmingham 1840. Price: £495.00 |
5895 |
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A cigar-case with leather lining by Edward Smith, Birmingham 1856. Price: £475.00 |
6066 |
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A very large bright-cut patch box, Birmingham 1798 by Joseph Taylor, crested with a wolf's head. Price:  |
3540 |
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A small match-striker with cigar cutter and pricker London, 1862 by Benjamin Barling (retailed by Carlin of 189 Regent Street) crested with a running horse. Price: £325.00 |
2963 |
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A filigree counter box with enamel jack of clubs on green ground in lid unmarked circa 1790. Price: £325.00 |
1708 |
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A patch box with embossed image of Queen Anne, London circa 1720 by TK. Price: £295.00 |
3520 |
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:A small match-striker/ladies snuff by John Harris, London, 1853 engraved with ACP Charles Frederick Ashley Cooper Ponsonby (1815-1896) succeeded as 2nd Baron De Mauley in 1855. |
2531 |
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A small engraved box of unusual constructions with two hinged lids, Birmingham 1870 by D&M (unidentified), inscribed in one of the half-lids, 'Alderman Heape J.P. Rochdale' (more information available on request). Price: £250.00 |
3846 |
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A patch box, the lid engraved with chequer board design, Birmingham 1814 by Cocks and Betteridge. Price: £250.00 |
3530 |
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A circular patchbox with chequerwork decoration by Joseph Taylor, Birmingham 1805 fully marked in both base and lid. Price: £240.00 |
9350 |
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"A cast circular patchbox with German style engine-turned decoration circa 1750, with workman's mark in base and 2 minute and illegible import marks on base and lid, initialled AH." Price: £220.00 |
8620 |
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A small box of gothic design, London 1873 by Archibald John Douglas. Price: £175.00 |
3593 |
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A small match-striker box decorated in the Aesthetic manner by John Hayes Taylor, Chester 1883. Price: £160.00 |
1882 |
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A brightcut patchbox by Samuel Pemberton, Birmingham 1806. Price: £155.00 |
2697 |
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A brightcut patchbox by Cocks and Betteridge, Birmingham 1802. Price: £145.00 |
8479 |
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An engraved circular box entirely in the Dutch manner by Hilliard and Thomasson, Birmingham 1869 engraved '22 June 1869'. Price: £145.00 |
9105 |
| A 2-part German egg, geometrically engraved unmarked, circa 1740, probably German. Price: £140.00 |
5866 | |
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A plain vesta case with swivel closure and suspensory ring by JHT, Birmingham 1880. Price: £135.00 |
1247 |
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A circular snuff or large patch box with tortoise-shell lid and base, both concave in shape, unmarked circa 1780, initialled SA. Price: £125.00 |
3025 |
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An Old Sheffield Plate patchbox with aventurine lid and engraved mother-of-pearl base engraved in Chinese style, circa 1760. Price: £120.00 |
3668 |
| A rounded rectangular vesta-case, plain but with shaped octagonal cartouches by William H. Sparrow, Birmingham 1909 . Price: £75.00 |
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A reeded bodkin case by Samuel Pemberton, Birmingham circa 1790. Price: £68.00 |
1131 |
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A very small metal patchbox decorated with Prince-of-Wales feathers and, on the reverse, stamped 'Prince of Wales's Box', mid-19th century. Price: £52.00 |
3155 |
