Very Sweet Georgian Silver Snuff Box with Delicately Engraved Hen heller not including wire hanging loop

not including wire hanging loop

Kinsey's Toy Building Blocks in the collection of the Henry Ford Museum

Signed on the bottom but I am not certain the maker

Weeds: 7 3/8" x 5 3/8"

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Very Sweet Georgian Silver Snuff Box with Delicately Engraved Hen heller not including wire hanging loopI believe this snuff tobacco box is Georgian, late 18th early 19th century I've found a few very very similar examples in terms of the construction and detailing of the box, most notably one sold by Greenwich Auctions in Connecticut (live auctioneers link here); the engraving on that one of a woman amid a simple farm scene was more elaborate, but the manner the same. And though unmarked, this is definitely silver. I fell in love with it though for