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With the hundreds of antique silver boxes pictured in color photographs, their identifying captions, information on marks, and a comprehensive text, this comprehensive book is an invaluable guide to the collector or dealer of antique silver boxes. The author shows hundreds of boxes with as many diverse forms and uses as possible - antique tobacco and snuff boxes and vinaigrettes, dental and medical boxes, jewel caskets, toothpick cases, lancet cases, sweetmeat boxes, pomanders, Masonic boxes, skippet and seal boxes, spice boxes, patch boxes, religious boxes, and more.
SILVER BOXES by Eric Delieb, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., NY, 1968 First Edition.
These antique silver boxes are described in-depth including, name, maker, mark, date, material, and more. The narrative in this book is extremely rich as the author reviews the history and production of the various silver box types and their manufacturers.
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Of special interest in a section which provides in-depth information on the hallmarks of the Birmingham boxmakers, the Pembertons, the Linwoods of Cogenhoe, the Mills Family, the Willmore Genealogy, and Joseph Taylor. Whether a collector of antique boxes or silver objects of art, all will want to add this invaluable book to their permanent reference library.
Oversize / heavy 8.8 in. x 11.9 in. hardback with dust cover in very good condition. 120 pages.
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