Miniature Sterling Silver Suitcase Box by Karel Bartosik, Hallmarked London 1983

A stylish small box made from white Agate with grey striations running through the stone. A sterling silver hinge and frame join the top and bottom sections. Originally used as a sta...

Fine silver cigarette box with enamel St Andrews flag to the top showing a field of blue with a yellow saltire. Original cedar lining to the interior. Hallmarked London 1935 and engr...

Large shaped silver and glass flask, hallmarked London 1910. The body of the flask is topped with a cork lined stopper that is on a hinged bayonet cl...

A wonderful silver container modelled as a crab that was originally made to carry tobacco. Made to a registered design with maker's mark for Cornelius Desormeaux Saunders & James Fra...

An exceptional box made from Malachite with leather covering to the base. Originally used as a cigarette box, a silver hinge and frame join the top and bottom sections. Made and reta...

A superb sterling silver period facsimile of the James Beard Memorial Trophy in hallmarked silver on a marble base originally commissioned by an early recipient of this nautical award. Makers mark for Pobjoy Mint, the makers of the actual trophy, and hallmarked London 1983. The trophy is awarded to the world offshore speed record holders in Class 1 power boat...

A fantastic and rare, novelty, antique sterling silver tobacco tin or box. It has been designed as an empty tin can, very realistically detailed and similar in size to a regular f...

A rare and highly sought-after sterling silver money box or bank, the like of which I have never seen before. The box is made from English sterling...

Rectangular table box with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with a beautiful hand-engraved and fire-enamelled frame and in the center a beautiful hand painted miniature by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing the painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres "Odalisque with slave". Dimensions cm. 9.5 x 12.3 x 3.3. Weight gr. 671. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1979 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 800° C. Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions. It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books. Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items. hand painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques. The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds: 1) Fire enamel. 2) Water tempera on an ivory plate. 3) Painted on mother-of-pearl. Fire enameled miniatures: On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature...

Shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fire-enameled stripes and fine oval enameled miniature in center cm. 3 x 4 hand-painted by ...

Baroque style shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand engraving interspersed with spaces with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and a beautiful h...

Table Box Sailing Boats miniature is in 925/1000 sterling. Table Box Sailing Boats miniature has handpainted fired enamels miniature. Table Box Sailing Boats miniature is squared. Ta...