Strauss & co - 17 March 2014, Cape Town

36 70 A Victorian silver double stamp box, Grey & Co, Birmingham, 1897 rectangular hinged cover enclosing gilt divisions, on a spreading gadrooned base, 55,5g all in, 3,4cm high, 6,5cmwide R2 500–3 000 71 A Victorian silver triple stamp box, Levi & Salaman, Birmingham, 1897 trough-shaped, raised on wirework scroll feet, 70,4g all in, 2,7cm high, 8,4cmwide R2 500–3 000 * 72 A Victorian silver card, note and stamp case, Minshull & Latimer, Birmingham, 1898 engraved with scrolling foliage with a vacant shield-shaped cartouche to the front, the leather fitted interior with an ivory aide- mémoire, 110g all in, 7,6cmwide ; and a George V example, Charles S Green & Co Ltd, Birmingham, 1910, moulded with a foliate border, later fabric interior, 85g all in, 7,7cmwide (2) R1 500–2 000 73 A Victorian silver triple stamp box, George Unite, Birmingham, 1900 rectangular, the cover with slide, gilt interior, the concave base raised on ball feet, the base with repairs, 84,3g all in, 3,1cm high 8,7cmwide R3 500–4 000 74 A Victorian silver double compartment stamp box, Lawrence Emanuel, Birmingham, 1900 trough-shaped, raised on pierced bracket feet, repairs, 53,1 all in, 3,6cm high, 6,1cmwide ; and a George V example, Adie & Lovekin, Chester, 1913, similar, with associated cover, Birmingham, 1913, on ball feet, 22,2g, 1,9cm high, 5,4cmwide (2) R2 500–3 000 75 A Victorian silver double hinged double stamp box, Cohen & Charles, Chester, 1900 rectangular, with sloped compartments and gilt interior, 54,6g all in, 1,5cm high, 5,4cmwide R4 500–5 000 76 Two chinoiserie papier-mâché stamp boxes, 19th century each cover painted with figures at various pursuits, one with quadruple compartments, the other with triple, the larger 3,3cm high, 14,5cmwide ; a Victorian papier-mâché and mother-of-pearl stamp and aide-mémoire case, the cover inlaid with a spray of flowers, 5cmwide ; and a black and gilt lacquer double stamp box, 19th century, the hinged cover decorated with gilt arabesque motifs, 2,4cm high, 6cmwide (4) R2 000–2 500 77 Four Tunbridge ware stamp boxes in sizes, one applied with a facsimile of the George V ½d stamp, another with a facsimile of the Victoria 1d stamp, two further examples with geometric borders inlaid with ‘Stamps’ and ‘Postage Stamps’, the largest 8,9cmwide ; and a commemorative circular fruitwood box, inscribed ‘Grown in Abbotsford Garden, Planted by Sir Walter Scott’, 4,2cm diameter (5) R2 000–2 500 78 A pair of Victorian brass double stamp boxes each with hinged rectangular cover pierced with sunflowers, raised on bracket feet, 3cm high, 9cmwide ; a brass triple stamp box, moulded with urns, flowers and swags, lacking a division, 14,5cmwide ; another, with hammered rectangular cover, 8cmwide ; and a glazed brass quadruple stamp box, the front side stamped with the initials ‘AEG’, 10,5cmwide (5) R800–1 200 * 79 Two Edward VII tortoiseshell and piqué inlaid stamp boxes, early 20th century one with double sloping compartments, the other with triple, both inlaid with ivory stringing, the taller 4,3cm high, 7,5cmwide (2) R3 500–4 000 PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR | LOTS 64-133