English hallmarked sterling silver Victorian snuff box having a…
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English hallmarked sterling silver Victorian snuff box having a shaped & hand-engraved body with floral decoration, gold-gilt interior & a hinged lid. Inscibed 'To Robert Keys Esq Fort Lodge From Eugene & Elizabeth Shirny' Birmingham, 1872, maker Robert Mitchell. Condition good, minor wear. Length 6.6 cm. Weight 58g

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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.
  • Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.

    The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 ? 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910.

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