Strauss & co - 21 October 2013, Cape Town

289 A novelty silver and enamel vesta case, J Aikin and Son, Birmingham, 1893 bell-shaped, with an enamel panel featuring a buoy at sea with the logo ‘ASBESTOS’, ring attachment, minor scratches to the enamel, 24,2g all in, 5,2cm long R400 – 600 290 Four Victorian and Edward VII silver vesta cases, various makers, 1897-1902 each engraved with foliate decoration enclosing a cartouche, the sides with ring attachment, including: a heart- shaped example, Rolason Brothers, Birmingham, 1897, 18,8g, 4,1cm long; another, Minshull and Latimer, Birmingham 1900, rectangular, 23,2g, 4,1cm long; another, Robert Pringle and Sons, Chester, 1901, 21,3g, 4,3cm long; and another, William J Holmes, Birmingham, 1902, 15,5g, 3,4cm long (4) R600 – 800 292 A Victorian novelty double swan silver pin cushion, Hilliard and Thomason, Chester, 1898 38,7g all in, 5,7cm high; and another Edward VII example, Adie and Lovekin, Birmingham, 1907, in the shape of an Indian elephant, 14,9g, 3cm high (2) R1 000 – 1 200 291 A Victorian novelty silver vesta case in the form of a bear, maker’s mark worn, Birmingham, 1897 the bear clasping a tree trunk, seated on a platform cast with the motto ‘In Mind’, with ring attachment, 17,5g all in, 4,9cm high R900 – 1 200 289 290 292 291 PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR | LOTS 263-298 115