An Edward VII Sterling silver gilt snuff box - image-1

Lot 126 Dα

An Edward VII Sterling silver gilt snuff box

Auction 1075 - overview Cologne
17.11.2016, 16:30 - Jewellery, Boxes and Portrait Miniatures
Estimate: 1.800 € - 2.000 €
Result: 2.232 € (incl. premium)
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An Edward VII Sterling silver gilt snuff box

Decorated with music still lifes, foliage, and floral tendrils in enamel en grisaille. Stamped Birmingham hallmark, year letter for 1844, maker's mark "NM", dedication engraving: "From the The Honble W.H. Yelverton as a mark of Esteem and Confidence To John Prospert Esqre. Founder of the Royal Benevolent College". 2.7 x 7.5 x 5 cm. Weight 173.5 g.
Birmingham, Nathaniel Mills (1746 - 1853), 1844.

Dr. John Propert founded the Royal Medical Benevolent College in Epsom in the South of England in 1853, which still exists to this day under the name Epsom College. The College was intended as a charitable project for retired doctors, their widows, and orphans. The founding was preceeded by a campaign organised by the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, which insisted that doctors had a special responsibility to care for the poor and disadvantaged, and organised fundraising drives to this end.