Jewellery, Watches, Silver and Objects of Vertu

Edinburgh Angling Club: a silver presentation snuff box by Nathaniel Mills, the lid engraved with a creel, rod, nets and a landed salmon, the remaining surfaces engine-turned and with applied foliate thumbpiece, with gilt interior, maker’s mark, Birmingham 1847, contained in contemporary morocco leather case, dimensions 6 x 8.5cm.

£600-£800

The interior engraved with black letter inscription ‘To David Wilkie Esqr from The Edinburgh Angling Club’.

The outer case with jeweller’s address to the inside silk for Mackay & Chisholm, 49 North Bridge, Edinburgh, within a garter.

Snuff box - lid with slight rubbing to engraved surface decoration.
Case - small loss of leather around the swivel catch.
Weight 119.5gm.