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Description: | Silver oval engraved snuff box. The upper surface of the lid is decorated with an elaborate coat of arms. The central shield has a red chevron between three erased fox heads. There is a peer's helmet above the shield with a crest of a standing fox facing left. The whole device is surrounded by acanthus leaves and garlands. There are three grooves around the edge of the lid and three similar grooves around the bottom edge, below a plain lip.
The marks are as follows:
On the lid (underside) and base: AS above a mullet and a lion's head erased.
On the side of the base: A lion's head erased, Britannia and the letter mark for 1705.
The marks would indicate a date of 1705 and the maker Thomas Ash, whose mark is AS above a mullet. | Subjects: | Snuff Box | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Ghey, Eleanor - British Museum | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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