Copper tobacco box

Made:: 1701-1800

Copper tobacco box
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Copper tobacco box, elaborately engraved on lid and base with domestic scenes, inscriptions round side etc, all in Dutch and mostly illegible, oblong box with hinged lid, Dutch, 18th century

Details

Category:: Smoking

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A165220

Materials:: copper

Measurements:: height 33 mm
length 167 mm
width 50 mm

type:: tobacco boxes

credit:: Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)

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