Strauss & co - 22 October 2012, Cape Town

466 A brass and composition snuffbox, 19th century circular, the hinged cover engraved with a cartouche and the initials ‘MLP’, 7cm diameter; and an ebonised and gilt-metal-mounted example, late 18th/early19th century, with lobed base, 4cm high (2) R2 000 – 3 000 467 A Boer War stone tablet in the form of a book, 1902 inscribed ‘India Kukul, September 20 1902’, the reverse with inscription, with leather pouch; a bone marrow scoop and toothpick, the terminal in the shape of a crocodile (3) R400 – 600 468 Five miniatures of Cape furniture, modern representing examples from various Cape museums, including: an imbuia Bible desk, 8cm high, an imbuia and yellowwood side table, 6cm high, a stinkwood side table, 6cm high, another, 6,5cm high; and a miniature Regency style mahogany sofa table, 6cm high, all with presentation boxes (5) R2 000 – 3 000 469 A group of twelve ivory Ekipas, Namibia each incised with geometric borders, double-hole aperture, approximately 7cmwide (12) R2 000 – 3 000 470 A Colonial bone and brass- mounted ceremonial dagger in a balsa wood and leather scabbard, with steel blade, length of blade 19cm long; and a metal-mounted pocket knife, with shaped blade, the blade 6cm long (2) R400 – 600 471 Ten Dutch Delft blue and white tiles, 18th and 19th century painted with figures and landscapes within circular borders, with ossekopjes corners, 13cm square; and two further examples (12) R2 000 – 3 000 472 Thirteen Dutch Delft blue and white tiles, 18th and 19th century each painted with tulips, with trelliswork corners, 13,5cm square (13) R2 000 – 3 000 473 An Indian teak and brass- mounted box rectangular with pierced mounts, the sides with carrying-handles, enclosing a velvet-lined interior with two hinged compartments, 17cm high, 41cmwide, 26cm deep R3 000 – 4 000 469 471 472 133