Powder box
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Silver and paper
Measurements
28 x 52 x 35 mm; 23 mm (Diameter)46 mm (Length)
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Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 517347
Summary
Silver gilt cylindrical box with cover and lid, and spoon, in shagreen case, C18, ms note in lid 'this box was used by General Gordon for liquorice powder during the Nile campaign and was given by one of the family to my father'
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.