4,200 CHF
Kulper, Brueg, circa 1740. Fine and unusual oval vermeil snuffbox fitted with a watch. Three-body, oval, the covers opening from a central hinge, the dial on one side and the tobacco compartment on the other, the lids engraved with a charmingly naïve scene of two gentlemen sitting at a table, one smoking a pipe, the other pointing at a globe. Silver, champlevé, Roman chapters, outer Arabic five-minutes in arched cartouches, set in an engraved gilt plate, auxiliary regulating dial in the top left corner, an identical dummy to theright for symmetry. Blued-steel poker and beetle hands. 35 x 49 mm., semicircular, brass full plate, baluster pillars, fusee and chain for the going train, verge escapement, plain three-arm balance, flat balance spring, plain brass onefooted cock. Dim. 88 x 56 x 14 mm. Notes Published in the Sandberg book, pages 376-377.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-03-16
