Items with musical mechanism and automaton

Musical snuffbox

    Musical snuffbox

    Great Britain, Switzerland

    Circa 1796

    Author Rich J.

    Metal, enamel, diamonds, steel, brass; chasing, engraving, champlevé enamel, painted (pictorial) enamel, guilloché, gilding

    8.5 x 4.8 x 28.5 cm, 292 g

    Marks and signatures: on the winding spring "Benson & Ibell", August 1796; on the case and on the movement is No. 1

    3555PCA359/ДПИ