1936 Pirelli Sterling Silver Cigarette Box with Enamel Plaque
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A sterling silver Pirelli cigarette box, 1936 Birmingham, with maker's mark for Mayes, Mills & Co, the partitioned timber lined box with a slightly domed engine turned lid with an enamel plaque featuring the 1917 'Neu Pirelli' speeding motorist, advertisement by Roowy, hallmarked to short end, height 5.5 cm, length 13 cm, width 8.5 cm
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- Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
- Engine Turned - Engine turning is a decorative technique used on metal surfaces to create intricate curving or geometric pattern. The process involves cutting a series of lines into the surface of the metal using a rose engine or decoration lathe which rotates the metal as it cuts, allowing the operator to create a repeating pattern that covers the entire surface. The resulting surface has a shimmering, reflective quality that is often described as "engine turned." Where an engine turned item has been enamelled, the term used to describe the decoration is usually guilloche.
Engine turning was originally developed to decorate metal objects such as firearms, scientific instruments, and other metal objects that required precise and elegant design.
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