A Late Victorian Memento Mori Silver Trick Vesta Case by William Summers 1881

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A Late Victorian Memento Mori Silver Trick Vesta Case by William Summers 1881Origin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1881 Width: 2. 5 Height: 1. 5 The Victorian silver 'trick' vesta case by William Summers of London, in 1881, the whole of oval form, the top with applied domed skeleton memento mori plaque, on an engine turned ground with invisible hinged cover, opened by pressing on one long edge, to a serrated striker plate to one side, the whole surviving from the high Victorian period. The vesta

one of the pair would fall into the fair to good category and the other into poor to fair

the drawer fronts remaining untouched

Origin: English/English Colonial

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There are marks

it is very rare to find these chairs presented as a pair

representing Swabia

and surviving from late nineteenth century Europe

To the late Victorians

ghost shows and marionettes booths which were replaced by novelty booths

the like proves harder to find by the day

Of rectangular form