APresentational snuffbox from Tipu Sultan's son. Curved oblong and with two hinged covers, each with a foliage and flower thumb ramb, with milled bands on the edges, the covers and base each engraved with an inscription, marked inside and one cover. The inscriptions read: 'To the Rt Honble Sir J.C. Hobhouse Bt. M.P. Prest of the India Board from his Friend Prince Jamh O Deen of Mysore July 1835' and 'Made of the Aukberry Struck by the Emperor Aukber Shah'.

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