Strauss & co - 16 March 2015, Cape Town

91 A Victorian coromandel and brass-mounted dressing case, William Lund, 57 Cornhill Street, London the blue velvet-lined interior fitted with eight silver-mounted glass bottles, each with circular vacant cartouche, four with the mark of Frances Douglas, London, 1856, the detachable rectangular pad with seven small steel or mother-of-pearl accessories, the detachable tray with silver handles enclosing an open and covered compartment, the cover with easel-back mirror enclosed behind the hinged leather-lined writing surface, the lower half with fitted jewellery drawer, the hinged cover inlaid with a brass plaque engraved with the initials ‘AGKM’, the case with maker’s plaque engraved ‘Lund. 57 Cornhill, LONDON’, 17,7cm high, 29,5cmwide, 21cm deep R7 000–9 000 92 A Victorian silver cake basket, Walter & John Barnard, London, 1878 of pierced petal outlined form, with a beaded rim enclosing an oval foliate cartouche, the centre engraved with a crest, the swing handle with a triple beaded border, raised on a circular foot, minor dent, 520g, 25,5cm diameter R3 000–4 000 93 A silver-mounted custard glass, 19th century the hinged silver cover apparently unmarked, engraved ‘H.E. Cotes’, the rim with serrated border, the faceted bell-shaped body applied with a loop handle set to a knopped column and conical foot, the footrim reduced, 10,5cm high R2 000–3 000 91 92 93 40