Strauss & co - 14 March 2016, Cape Town

257 A Cape silver-mounted cowrie shell snuff box, maker’s mark ID between two stars, late 18th century the shell set to a silver zig-zag border, the hinged base engraved with a stippled cartouche and conforming border, 8cmwide R5 000–7 000 PROVENANCE Sold Strauss & Co: The Contents of Keerweder , 22 October 2012, part lot 455 258 A Cape silver-mounted cowrie shell snuff box, with maker’s initial F.S, possibly Godfried Fredrik Schmitzdorff, late 18th/early 19th century the shell set to a scalloped silver border, the hinged cover and reverse with foliate wrigglework bands, 5,3cmwide ; and another, apparently unmarked, the shell set to an engraved silver zig-zag border, the hinged cover engraved with ‘HCG’within foliate wrigglework borders, 5,5cmwide (2) R6 000–8 000 259 A Cape silver port label, John Townsend, mid 19th century oval, the central plaque engraved ‘PORT’between floral sprays, enclosed by a pierced rope-twist border, to a chain, 15g, 5,5cmwide R 5 000–7 000 257 258 259 258 reverse detail PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR | LOTS 245 - 266 101