Strauss & co - 14 March 2016, Cape Town

161 A Dutch silver peppermint box, maker’s mark CB, early 19th century, .934 standard, import mark for London, 1891, retailer possibly Louis Landsberg in the form of a tea caddy, engraved with foliate swags between dash and line borders, ring attachment lacking, 31,7g, 3,8cm high ; another, 1815, .833 standard, engraved with a cockerel and other birds, the cover with swing-handle, 23,4g, 3,3cm high ; and another, early 19th century, engraved with swags, later ring attachment, 22,6g, 3,4cm high (3) R2 500–3 000 162 A Dutch silver peppermint box, 1846, .833 standard in the form of a reeded tea caddy, the front with a cartouche engraved ‘CHD.B.’, the cover with ring attachment, 18,6g, 3,5cm high ; another similar example, apparently unmarked, 29,3g, 3,8cm high ; another, Utrecht, 19th century, .833 standard, handle lacking, 16,1g, 2,5cm high ; and another, 1868, .833 standard, the hinged cover engraved with wrigglework and flowers, the front with a vacant cartouche, 24,3g, 3,7cm high; all with some distress (4) R1 200–1 500 163 A Dutch silver peppermint box, 19th century, .833 standard the tapering body engraved with bands of flowerheads, anthemions and foliage, with applied pierced ovolo rims, the sides with rope- twist handles, the front with a vacant cartouche, 16,7g, 4,3cm high ; another, Utrecht, 19th century, the two-handled urn-shaped body engraved with foliate motifs, the cover now fixed, 24,3g, 5,3cm high ; and another, 19th century, pail-shaped, the sides moulded with flowerheads and ring attachments, lacking handle, 29,6g, 4cm high (3) R2 000–2 500 164 A Dutch silver peppermint box, maker’s mark IS, 1823, .833 standard modelled as an armoire, with wrigglework decoration, the cover with pierced gallery, 21,9g, 4cm high ; two silver-gilt examples, Utrecht, 19th century, .833 standard, the reverse moulded with ‘HE DAT IS LIEF’, 43,7g all in, 4,3cm high ; and another silver example, 19th century, the sides moulded with maidens at work, the reverse with a couple in a horsedrawn cart, pseudo marks to the base, 21,2g, 4cm high (4) R2 500–3 000 161 162 163 164 62