Opus Antiques has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
This piece has the manufacturers label to the base Edmund Nye.
It measures 6cm h x 3cm w.
Edmund was the son of James Nye and lived in the Tunbridge area. He became a junior partner to William Fenner until 1817 when the partnership was dissolved. Nye then opened his own workshop in the nearby Market Place. Nye was one of the makers considered for the production of a work and writing table for Princess Victoria in 1826, the subject of a fund setup by the leading citizens and traders of the town. William Fenner was chosen, however, Nye received patronage from the Duchess of Kent. In 1840 the business of Fenner & Co was put into receivership and Nye took over the repository and in 1844 the workshops on Mount Ephraim. He appears to have carried out extensive building works as trade card engravings depict a single larger and deeper building than the separate repository and workshops shown on the earlier Fenner and Fenner & Co cards. He died in 1863.
Opus Antiques has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
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