A Massive Jeweled Gold, Enamel, and Ivory Presentation Table Snuff Box, Probably Weishaupt & Söhne, Hanau, Circa 1880

cartouche-shaped, the lid applied with an oval portrait miniature of a young Nicholas I in black military uniform with gold epaulettes wearing the blue moiré sash and breast star of the Imperial Order of St Andrew the Apostle the First Called, painted on ivory, in a translucent red enamel frame, surrounded by cast and applied scrolling foliage on a sablé ground around six collet-set diamonds, the baluster sides applied and engraved with scrollwork, the base similarly engraved around a central floral ornament, polished rose-gold interior and footrim, the left rim numbered: 3716, further struck: 585 for 14ct gold, one further illegible mark 

Length 4 ⅝ in.

11.8 cm

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