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Lot 56

Sale 2585 - The Tastemaker
Jul 13, 2023 7:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$800 - 1,200
Price Realized
$599
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

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A collection of five smoking and table articles 18th / 19th century

Comprising three silver-mounted bone mulls or snuff horns, engraved with monograms, names and / or dates: "IH 1804," "WH," and "David Chalmers Slater Milnathort" along with engraved crest in the form of pick axe with trowel; a silver-mounted horn tobacco box with thistle motif and engraved, "Matthew Frier; a cast brass wax jack in the form of a cornocopia; together with an American enameled sterling silver spoon, with indistinct maker's mark and "925," a carved burlwood tobacco box, stamped "Made in U.S.S.R. (Russia)"; and a piece of Atlantic Telegraph Cable, with brass plaque inscribed, "Atlantic Telegraph Cable/ Guaranteed By/ Tiffany & Co./ Broadway, New York." (8 items total).

L: 4 in. (longest snuff horn)

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