Strauss & co - 14 March 2016, Cape Town

250 A rare Cape silver snuff box, Johannes Combrink, first half 19th century circular, the hinged cover engraved with ‘A.C.O’within a wrigglework border, the rim similarly decorated, 55g, 5cm diameter R6 000–8 000 251 A Cape silver snuff box, Johannes Combrink, first half 19th century navette-shaped, the hinged cover engraved with ‘WJ’and a flowerhead within a wrigglework cartouche, the rim similarly engraved, the base naïvely engraved, gilt interior, 90g, length 7,7cm R6 000–8 000 252 A Cape silver snuff box, Marthinus Lourens Smith, second half 18th/early 19th century rectangular, the domed hinged cover engraved with a plaque enclosing the initials ‘JMEVDM’, with applied gable-shaped thumbpiece and gilt interior, the base with a vacant wriggle- and stipplework panel, 90g, 6,5cmwide R7 000–9 000 253 A Cape silver snuff box, Johannes Combrink, first half 19th century convex, the part-hinged cover engraved with the initials ‘A.W.J.P.’and with a flowerhead within wrigglework borders, 70g, 6,5cm long R6 000–8 000 250 251 252 253 253 detail PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR | LOTS 245 - 266 99