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maker's mark I.S, possibly Johann Georg Scheppich German silver snuffbox with fitted timepiece
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description
- silver, steel, brass
- 8.5cm, 3 3/8 in wide
plain shaped oval, underside engraved ‘FXI’, the double-hinged lid fitted with an engraved watch, signed ‘FÜRSTEN/FELDER’ and ‘B Fürstenfelder 442’ for Benedikt Fürstenfelder (1680-1754), watchmaker of Friedberg, gilt interiors, key, the snuff box also with an 1806-24 Linz control mark
Literature
Exh. Cat. Couven-Museum Aachen, 2003, no. 116
Catalogue Note
The maker's mark of JG Sheppich is unrecorded by Dr Seling (Seling no 2051). However Scheppich inherited his father's workshop in 1711 from his widowed mother who had carried on working and using her husband's maker's mark after the latter's death (JM Scheppich maker's mark I.S, Seling no. 1741). It seems possible that the younger Scheppich continued using his father's mark.
Johann Georg Scheppich was born in 1679, and worked in Friedberg from 1710.
Benedict Fürstenfelder died in 1754.
Johann Georg Scheppich was born in 1679, and worked in Friedberg from 1710.
Benedict Fürstenfelder died in 1754.