Lot 551: Sold for £95 hammer

Estimate £60-£80

An early 19th Century engraved oval brass snuff box ‘May poverty be always a day’s march behind us’, the reverse titled 'Ground for the floor' with detail of a cottage and two other oval flip cover snuff boxes ‘Old Q’. (3)

Condition report
One cover on Old Q is detached and evidence of solder to hinge.

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