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Silver from the Collection of Jimmy Weldon
85 A GERMAN VARI-COLOUR GOLD SNUFF-BOX, HANAU, CIRCA 1790,struck with the Hanau town mark for 18 carat gold and a mark resembling the Parisian charge mark
of JulienAlaterre (1768-1774), of oval form, the whole decorated with series of roundels against
panels of wave-pattern engine-turning, within sablé bead and flower head outer borders, the side
pilasters chased with vari-colour gold foliate urns, (c.95.49g). 8.75cm wide
€ 5,000 - 7,000
1790:English painter J.M.W.Turner exhibits his first painting,a watercolour at the Royal Academy at the age
of 15.