With engine-milled fitted interior including a thimble, scissors, needle and cut-glass scent holder, with pierced foliate scroll gallery to the inside cover, raised on scroll stand and veneered plinth with scallop-shell feet, 14.5cm high; 16cm high
Condition report:
In good complete condition. The cover with engraved trailing foliate decoration, gilding rubbed.
Dirt and dust to the base and some tarnishing to the gilding. A few small abrasions to the shell veneers, but very minor.
Provenance: Hylda and Lewis Gilbert, Sheldrake Place, London.
Lewis Gilbert (d.2018), the celebrated film director, producer and screenwriter, best known for his 007 James Bond movies and Alfie.
