Untitled
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Coquilla nut, Wood
Measurements
102 x 28 mm
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339754
Summary
Box; Snuffbox, carved coquille nut figure of a man with top hat with a box in his back. The box lid is missing from the back. 'One of two snuff boxes in the form of men, the back opens to reveal cavity, made from coquille nut. One bought from Alfred Clarke, Ipswich, 21 December 1900' (M. Jessup).
Provenance
one bought from Alfred Clarke, Ipswich, 21 December 1900 for 2s Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.