Early 1900s Snuff Boxes and Tobacco

Important rectangular gold box in translucent yellow enamel on a radiant guilloche. The enamelled cover is decorated with a gold trellis which is embellished with diamonds and features imperial double-headed eagles. The lid presents a central medallion with the number N II for Tsar Nicholas II...

Antique early-20th Century Victorian lignum vitae tobacco jar carved in the form of a bulldog head. The detail is of exceptional quality, featuring large glass eyes and a leather col...

Antique early 20th Century English solid silver cigar case. The case has rounded corners along with four inner compartments to hold cigars, with a richly gilt interior. Hallmarked En...

Art Nouveau Silverplated Pill Box Floral ECHINACEA Pattern Jugendstil Origin: probably France Marks: unmarked Diameter: ca. 4,7 cm / 1.85" Height: ca. 2,...

Antique 19th Century Victorian lignum vitae tobacco jar carved in the form of a bulldog head. The detail is of exceptional quality, featuring glass eyes and a leather collar around t...

One of the most charming examples I have seen from the Austrian artist, Johann Maresch. Created from painted terracotta, the jar is in the form of a barrel with a Dachshund coming o...

A snuff gold box designed by Henrik Wigström. Beautiful neo classic snuff box, created in St, Petersburg Russia, at the workshop of Henrik Wigström, back in the 1908. This piece has been carefully crafted in the Russian imperial and Louis XVI styles, in solid yellow gold of 56 zolotnik (14kt) and embellished with applications of white enamel. Decorated around with garlands and intricates dotted patterns. Fitted with an invisible hinge and close perfectly well. Weight: 36.65 Grams, (23.49 Dwt). Measurements: 41 mm by 39 mm by 14 mm (1.61 x 1.53 x 0.55 Inches). Hallmarks: Stamped on both parts with Russian marks; the kokoshnik post 1908 mark with the letter a for the city of Saint Petersburg, the maker's mark HW associated to Henrik Wigström inside an oval cartouche, scratched with his inventory numbers 86111 and the 56 zolotnik mark for the assay and warranty of the gold. Other Hallmarks: Stamped in the outside border, with German importation marks; the German Crown mark, the retailer mark AT inside an oval and the 585 mark for the assay and warranty of the gold. Henrik Immanuel Wigström born on 1862 and was a Finnish silver & goldsmith. He was one of the most important Fabergé workmasters along with Michael Perchin. Perchin was the head workmaster from 1886 until his death in 1903, when he was succeeded by his chief assistant Henrik Wigström. These two workmasters were responsible for almost all the imperial Easter eggs. Henrik Wigström was born in Ekenäs, Finland, and was apprenticed to a local Danish born goldsmith named Peter Madsén, a successful manufacturer of silverware who was familiar with the jewellery trade in the city of St. Petersburg, as at one time he had had a workshop there. Once in Madsén's employment, his master's trade with Russia, as well as his numerous business contacts here, brought him to work in St. Petersburg. Goldsmith Werner Elfström employed Wigström as a apprentice on his arrival in the capital in 1875. Wigström became assistant in 1884, at the age of 22, to Perchin, whose shop at that time was already working exclusively for Fabergé. Wigström became head workmaster at Fabergé after Perchin's death in 1903. The number of craftsmen in Wigström's workshop diminished drastically with the outbreak of World War I. By 1918, the Revolution forced the complete closing of the House of Fabergé. Aged 56, Wigström retreated almost empty-handed to his summer house, on Finnish territory, and died at Terijoki in 1923. His art is similar to Perchin's but tends to be in the Louis XVI, Empire, or neo-classical style. Nearly all the Fabergé hardstone animals...

French snuff box in silver with Niello. Beautiful hinged snuff box, created in Paris France back in the 1900. This box was crafted with a round bom...

A French snuff box from the Edwardian Period. Very beautiful hexagonal box, created in Paris France during the Edwardian period, back in the 1905. ...

Antique sterling silver Cigarette Tobacco snuff box, French C.1904 with import marks for London 1904 Barr, Moering & Co. Rectangular rounded corners shape, engine turn and bead accen...

Exquisite Austrian Art-Nouveau Tabatière, Around 1900: Rectangular smooth silver cigarette case with hinged lid, iron-red camaieu enamel painting on top: portrait of a girl with laurel wreath, opening with snap fastener on the side, eyelets on the inside for attaching straps, interior gilding. Hallmarks: - Diana head in hexagon - Viennese official hallmark 1872 - 1922 for 900 silver - 'GAS' - Master's sign of GEORG ADAM SCHEID: Authorization 1862, gold and silver jewelery manufacturer, knight of the Franz Joseph Order, production of gold and silver arts and crafts, jewelery and enamel goods, participation in trade exhibitions such as in the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry, as well as in the Paris World Exhibition in 1900. Bibliography: Waltraud Neuwirth, Viennese gold and silversmiths and their hallmarks, Vienna 1976, vol. II, L-Z, page 178-180 - Crescent + crown + 900 - German imperial silver...

Exquisite Austrian Art-Nouveau silver box, Around 1900: Triangular silver pill box in a smooth finish with a hinged lid, on the top camaieu enamel painting in iron red: Portrait of ...