Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 14 March 2016
Session 2
About this Item
A Cape silver-mounted cowrie shell snuff box, with maker's initial F.S, possibly Godfried Fredrik Schmitzdorff, late 18th/early 19th century
the shell set to a scalloped silver border, the hinged cover and reverse with foliate wrigglework bands, 5,3cm wide; and another, apparently unmarked, the shell set to an engraved silver zig-zag border, the hinged cover engraved with 'HCG' within foliate wrigglework borders, 5,5cm wide
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