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Oval Cow Horn Pocket Snuff Box, Owner’s Names Engraved
Date/Period: 18^th Century - SOLD

Oval Cow Horn Pocket Snuff Box, Owner’s Names Engraved, entire view

Measurement: 3.5” by 2” by 1"

Additional Information: Original owner’s name: Thomas Jones
Likely second owner’s name scratch carved: Green

SOLD

621-98

Dutch, Engraved Tobacco Box, Adam, and Eve, Engraved Top and Bottom, Inscription
Netherlands
Date/Period: Circa 1770

Dutch, Engraved Tobacco Box, Adam, and Eve, Engraved Top and Bottom, Inscription Netherlands, side 1

Measurement: 1.25" x 7" x 1.75"

Material: Brass and copper

Condition: Excellent

Additional Information: Four wonderfully engraved Adam and Eve scenes featuring
appropriate verses, landscapes, animals and more…all within oval panels centered by
scrolled borders. Oval with brass sides, copper lid and base.

$745.00

281-166

Dutch, Engraved Tobacco Box, Adam, and Eve, Engraved Top and Bottom, Inscription Netherlands, side 2

Dutch, Engraved Tobacco Box, Adam, and Eve, Engraved Top and Bottom, Inscription Netherlands, detail view 1

Dutch, Engraved Tobacco Box, Adam, and Eve, Engraved Top and Bottom, Inscription Netherlands, detail view 2

Dutch, Engraved Tobacco Box, Adam, and Eve, Engraved Top and Bottom, Inscription Netherlands, detail view 3

Dutch, Engraved Tobacco Box, Adam, and Eve, Engraved Top and Bottom, Inscription Netherlands, detail view 4

Tobacco Box, Oblong
Date/Period: Early 18^th Century

Measurement: 1.25" x 6.5" x 2"

Material: Brass and copper

Condition: Excellent

Additional Information: The elongated box with rounded ends displays an unusual
interior scene featuring a string trio, architectural columns…also a vista showing
scrolled railing and urn on plinth; buildings in the distance. The ends of lid ornamented
with scrolled acanthus decoration. The sides display scrolled decoration. On the bottom
a similar view with harpist playing to seated nobleman, similar vista and engraved ends.

Verse translated from Dutch to the best of our ability:
Sobald dein ton das ohr bestreichet wird selbst die grauamkeit erweichet
Music preiß aller freyen Kräfte
die stets mein geist sein labsal nent
ob manches schwächer Hirn gespinste
dir gleich nicht seinen beifal gönt
As soon as your sound has touched the ear
even the cruelty softens
Music press all free forces
which my mind calls its refreshment
whether some weaker brains
do not grant you its approval

$785.00

281-168

Tobacco Box, Dutch, Engraved
Date/Period: Early 18^th Century

Tobacco Box, Dutch, Engraved, entire view 1

Measurement: 1.25" x 5" x 2"

Material: Copper and brass

Condition: Excellent

Additional Information: The top displays a religious scene flanked by large seated
winged angels within leafy scrolled decoration; border also engraved as are the sides of
box. The base features another religious scene flanked by angels and scrolled leavy
devices within engraved border. Top and bottom with engraved old Dutch verse.

God gaf een gebod en wilde het niet, het werd volbracht en het geschiede niet.

Not so easy to translate it in English but it’s like:

God gave a command because He didn’t want it (can be anything) to happen, the
command was completed, and it wasn’t done.

$785.00

281-167

Tobacco Box, Dutch, Engraved, entire view 2

Tobacco Box, Dutch, Engraved, detail view 1

Tobacco Box, Dutch, Engraved, detail view 2

Tobacco Box, Dutch, Engraved, entire view 3

Tobacco Box, Dutch, Engraved, entire view 4

Snuff Boxes, Papier Mache
Sold separately

Paper Mache Snuff Box, Marquis de Lafayette, Round
Probably 1830s, portrait within clouds commemorating his death
Featuring a decoupage print lid celebrating General Lafayette, surmounted by legend, "May a grateful people ever estimate his services". Genal. Lafayette" beneath bust portrait of the general encircled within a wreath of clouds. The base of the box is black. Some losses as depicted on the lid; overall very good. (3.5" in diameter; .75" H)
$850
643-17

Paper Mache Snuff Box, Louis Antoine, Duke
Transfer Printed
19th Century
Some edge abrasion, otherwise fine
(Diameter: 2 7/8")
$395
643-15

Snuff Box, Lafayette, Die Stamped Medallion, Portrait within Bezel
Mid 19th Century
France - SOLD
Burled walnut, embossed brass foil portrait of Lafayette surmounted by "Homage A Lafayette". (Diameter: 1.75"; H: .75")
SOLD
643-18

Snuff Box, Pressed Horn, Mourning, Denis Auguste Affre (1793 to 1848)
French
Circa 1840s
Priest, professor, appointed Arch Bishop of Paris in 1840; he was not involved in politics as he was dedicated to pastoral endeavors; he was killed during the Insurrection of 1848. He did not heed the warning General Louis Eugene Cavaignac, presenting himself at the entrance to the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, with green branch as sign of peace. He had spoken only a few words, when shots rang-out; the insurgents thinking they were betrayed, opened fire wounding the archbishop who was struck by a stray bullet. He died on 27 June. The National Assembly of France declared their tremendous sorrow in a decree; a public funeral on 7 July was one of the most moving assemblies of the period.
Affre Archev of Paris
Wounded to death on the barricades
June 25, 1848
The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep
That my blood soitle last pay
$475
643-16

Brass & Copper Engraved Tobacco Box, Dutch,
Early 18th Century

Molded top and bottom, engraved tavern scenes flanked by full-length putty.
The engraving is worn, it looks like "Woe Geset" with the other side reading "Wij Trinken
wel" translating to: “Because we sit, we can drink”. We may not be 100% accurate;
language appears to be a German - Northern Dutch dialect.
(Repaired tear to front, working period, doesn’t distract;
(5" x 2.25" x 1.25")

Brass & Copper Engraved Tobacco Box, Dutch, Early 18th Century, entire view 2

$385.00

1039-81

Antique Carved Folk Art Pipe Bowl, Fruitwood
Anonymous, 19th Century

Displaying a rich patina, featuring clover and vine relief carving; front ornamented with a
harp and block lettered “HARP” beneath initials “THS”.
(Height: 3.5"; width: 2.5"; depth: 4")

Antique Carved Folk Art Pipe Bowl, Fruitwood
Anonymous, 19th Century, entire view 2

$475.00

110-932

A Large Brass Tobacco Box, Dutch, 18th Century, Village and Farm Scene
Two teams of horse plowing fields, farmer seeding, and village scene

Antique Large Brass Tobacco Box with Village and Farm Scene, Dutch, 18th Century, entire view

Engraved in Old Dutch “I plough the land en I harrow the land and I don’t ask for wisdom.”
Loosely translated to mean that it was more important that you knew how to live from the land then to be educated; intended as a swipe to educated people of that time (According to a friend in Amsterdam). (7.5 by 3 by 1.25”)

$395

1012-104

Antique Large Brass Tobacco Box with Village and Farm Scene, Dutch, 18th Century, back entire view

Antique Large Brass Tobacco Box with Village and Farm Scene, Dutch, 18th Century, open view

Antique Large Brass Tobacco Box with Village and Farm Scene, Dutch, 18th Century, engraving detail 1

Antique Large Brass Tobacco Box with Village and Farm Scene, Dutch, 18th Century, engraving detail 2

Antique Large Brass Tobacco Box with Village and Farm Scene, Dutch, 18th Century, engraved text detail

Eighteenth Century Dutch Tobacco Box, Brass, William of Orange, Political Poems
Do not fear the House of Orange
Holland and the Prussians dance celebration against the French
1787; we have two pages of translation

Antique Brass Dutch Tobacco Box, William of Orange, 18th Century, entire view

(6 by 2.25 by 1.25”)

$1,425

1008-43

Antique Brass Dutch Tobacco Box, William of Orange, 18th Century, angle view

Antique Brass Dutch Tobacco Box, William of Orange, 18th Century, side view

Antique Brass Dutch Tobacco Box, William of Orange, 18th Century, back view

Antique Brass Dutch Tobacco Box, William of Orange, 18th Century, close up detail 1

Antique Brass Dutch Tobacco Box, William of Orange, 18th Century, close up detail 2

Antique Brass Dutch Tobacco Box, William of Orange, 18th Century, close up detail 3

Cigar Case; Papier Mache, Zachary Taylor on Horseback, Battle of the Rio Grande
Circa 1846 to 1850
Many images are generic; the portrait is named below the portrait

Cigar Case; Papier Mache, Zachary Taylor on Horseback, Battle of the Rio Grande
Circa 1846 to 1850, entire view

An outstanding cheroot case, "Taylor's Battle the Rio Grande", hand-painted scene of Taylor on horseback reviewing troops. There are three scratches through the arm and background, else fine. (5.5 by 3")

$3,795

232-283

Cigar Case; Papier Mache, Zachary Taylor on Horseback, Battle of the Rio Grande
Circa 1846 to 1850, name detail

Cigar Case; Papier Mache, Zachary Taylor on Horseback, Battle of the Rio Grande
Circa 1846 to 1850, back view

Snuff Box, Wood, Carved and Pressed, Great Patina
Guillaume Tell Ou La Liberte Suisse
19th Century

Surgeons Saw, Amputation, Steel and Brass, Ebonized Handle
Possibly Giannattasio
19th Century, angle view

(Diameter: 3.25"; H: 1")

$375

107-167

Surgeons Saw, Amputation, Steel and Brass, Ebonized Handle
Possibly Giannattasio
19th Century, entire view

Surgeons Saw, Amputation, Steel and Brass, Ebonized Handle
Possibly Giannattasio
19th Century, open view

Antique Lathe Turned Mortar and Pestle, Traces of Fire Gilt on Brass
Apothecary use, very heavy, H: 6.75”

Antique Lathe Turned Brass Mortar and Pestle with Traces of Fire Gilt, entire view

$295

360-10

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Oval Cow Horn Pocket Snuff Box, Owner’s Names Engraved Date/Period: 18th Century - SOLD

Dutch, Engraved Tobacco Box, Adam, and Eve, Engraved Top and Bottom, Inscription Netherlands Date/Period: Circa 1770

Tobacco Box, Oblong Date/Period: Early 18th Century

Tobacco Box, Dutch, Engraved Date/Period: Early 18th Century

Snuff Boxes, Papier Mache Sold separately

Brass & Copper Engraved Tobacco Box, Dutch, Early 18th Century

Antique Carved Folk Art Pipe Bowl, Fruitwood Anonymous, 19th Century

A Large Brass Tobacco Box, Dutch, 18th Century, Village and Farm Scene Two teams of horse plowing fields, farmer seeding, and village scene

Eighteenth Century Dutch Tobacco Box, Brass, William of Orange, Political Poems Do not fear the House of Orange Holland and the Prussians dance celebration against the French 1787; we have two pages of translation

Cigar Case; Papier Mache, Zachary Taylor on Horseback, Battle of the Rio Grande Circa 1846 to 1850 Many images are generic; the portrait is named below the portrait

Snuff Box, Wood, Carved and Pressed, Great Patina Guillaume Tell Ou La Liberte Suisse 19th Century

Antique Lathe Turned Mortar and Pestle, Traces of Fire Gilt on Brass Apothecary use, very heavy, H: 6.75”

Oval Cow Horn Pocket Snuff Box, Owner’s Names Engraved
Date/Period: 18^th Century - SOLD

Dutch, Engraved Tobacco Box, Adam, and Eve, Engraved Top and Bottom, Inscription
Netherlands
Date/Period: Circa 1770

Tobacco Box, Oblong
Date/Period: Early 18^th Century

Tobacco Box, Dutch, Engraved
Date/Period: Early 18^th Century

Snuff Boxes, Papier Mache
Sold separately

Brass & Copper Engraved Tobacco Box, Dutch,
Early 18th Century

Antique Carved Folk Art Pipe Bowl, Fruitwood
Anonymous, 19th Century

A Large Brass Tobacco Box, Dutch, 18th Century, Village and Farm Scene
Two teams of horse plowing fields, farmer seeding, and village scene

Eighteenth Century Dutch Tobacco Box, Brass, William of Orange, Political Poems
Do not fear the House of Orange
Holland and the Prussians dance celebration against the French
1787; we have two pages of translation

Cigar Case; Papier Mache, Zachary Taylor on Horseback, Battle of the Rio Grande
Circa 1846 to 1850
Many images are generic; the portrait is named below the portrait

Snuff Box, Wood, Carved and Pressed, Great Patina
Guillaume Tell Ou La Liberte Suisse
19th Century

Antique Lathe Turned Mortar and Pestle, Traces of Fire Gilt on Brass
Apothecary use, very heavy, H: 6.75”