Description:
From original file: Ivory and silver snuff box with applied gadrooning around rim of top and bottom. Free-form pique flowers on cover. Three-lug hinge inside two bars. Silver "straps" extend from bottom section, at hinge, to cover, widening to flat hand-forms 1.5 cm in from edge. These straps are held on with four pins: two on bottom and two on cover. Sloppy mounting on bottom.

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