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A gold snuff box, 19th century in earlier style

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

rectangular, all sides decorated with stylised scale engine-turning within scalloped frames and polished reeded borders, French prestige marks including discharge mark for Eloy Brichard (1756-1762), export contremarque for Julien Alaterre (1768-1774), contremarque for Jean Baptiste Fouache, (1774-1780), Paris date letter R for 1757/58, the left rim numbered: 842,

8,1 cm; 3 1/8 in. wide

overall weight 181 gr, 5,82 oz

Christie's London, Gold Boxes: An Important Private Collection, 5 December 2018, lot 25

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