Mytton Antiques - Jerrard Nares has dated this piece to the 1850s.
The lignum vitae string box with a pear shaped finial, fitted with a cutting blade. The screw off lid, slightly dome shaped, in a series of rounded steps, to the rounded rim. The lid with a string hole below the cutting blade. The cylindrical body resting on a concave edged plinth base.
Date c1850.
Height 6 1/2 inches, width 4 1/2 inches, depth 4 1/2 inches.
Mytton Antiques - Jerrard Nares has dated this piece to the 1850s.
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19th C String Box
