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Lot 28
Group of eight brass tobacco or snuff boxes English, Dutch, and American, 17th-19th century
Sale 5994 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Nov 12, 2019
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Lot Description
Group of eight brass tobacco or snuff boxes English, Dutch, and American, 17th-19th century
Of varying forms and variously engraved and dated, one showing Native Americans cultivating tobacco, inscribed "Corn Willson 1772 , another, inscribed , "J.B. Jones Shomokin, PA America 1899."
L: 4 1/2 in. (longest)Provenance: Collection of the late Hans U. Jahn, Charlottesville, VA.