Lot 527
A late Victorian silver cheroot holder, the tapering form engraved throughout with foliate...
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Lot 527
A late Victorian silver cheroot holder, the tapering form engraved throughout with foliate...
Lot 527
Lot Description
A late Victorian silver cheroot holder, the tapering form engraved throughout with foliate scrolls, hallmarked Cornelius Desormeaux Saunders & James Francis Hollings (Frank) Shepherd, Chester 1897, length measuring 8 cm. Together with four silver thimbles, a Sampson Mordan silver cased pencil, a silver mounted 'Yard-O-Led' pencil, a small oriental cylindrical box and cover, a silver conical shape chamberstick extinguisher, an Edinburgh souvenir silver teaspoon with thistle terminal and a further silver spoon with fruiting vine leaf finial. Gross weighable silver 3.42 ozt (106.5 grams). (11).
Postage: Auction Default
Weight: No
Total lot weight: No
Condition Report
All the pieces display some general wear, tarnishing, surface marks and scratches consistent with age and use and to varying degrees. Cheroot holder appears in good overall condition. Several small surface dints and bumps to the pencils. One of the thimbles is a little out of shape and there is loss of detail to areas of the decoration. Heavier tarnishing to some. Hallmarks are mostly legible.
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