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Lot 60
Decoupaged wood soap box and group of eight papier-mâché snuff boxes circa 1810-1860
Sale 5994 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Nov 12, 2019 10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$2,500 - 3,500
Price Realized
$2,375
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Lot Description
Decoupaged wood soap box and group of eight papier-mâché snuff boxes circa 1810-1860

The soap box with printed label, "Ezra Wood Manufacturer Buckland Mss.", depicting Washington and Lafayette ; two snuff boxes depicting General Lafayette; one depicting the "Glorious Victory" of the United States over the Macedonia, one showing the Declaration of Independence; one with an advertisement for Henry Reill & Co.'s Celebrated Snuff and Tobacco Manufactory", another depicting a domestic scene with inscription to lid, "Lieut. Wm Betts Griffith N.Y. Vol.s 1812-1814 Born 1788. Died 1857.," a phrenological diagram, and a calendar of saints for 1853.

Dia: 4 1/2 in. (largest)

Provenance: Collection of the late Hans U. Jahn, Charlottesville, VA.

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