A Jeweled Two-Colour Gold Presentation Snuff Box, Probably Hanau, Circa 1815/20 and later

rectangular, the matted gold lid later applied with the diamond-set cipher F, in a rose-gold frame surrounded by chased foliate borders and collet-set diamonds forming flowerheads to each corner, the sides and base with similar chased and applied borders and dividers on a sablé ground around engine-turning, the interior of the lid later engraved with the date 26-4-1951, apparently unmarked apart from later French import mark

Length 3 ⅜ in.

8.7 cm