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659. A matched pair of 18th century silver presentation tobacco boxes, one by Edward Cornock, London 1712, the second, by James Phipps I, London 1773, plain oval form with a raised pull-off cover, each engraved with an armorial shield, the earlier example engraved to the underside ‘Haycock of Reading’, the latter engraved ‘Ann Heycock’, length 10cm, approx. total weight 9oz. (2) £2,000-3,000 The arms are those of Heycock. Provenance: Britain-Defining The Interior, Bonhams, New Bond Street, 3 June 2015, lot 91. Bonhams footnote: Joseph Heycock was an apothecary in Reading, though the engraver mistakenly used the wrong spelling. Joseph left his estate and this box to his younger brother Nicholas (1679-1763). Ann Heycock (1711-1788), was Nicholas’s eldest daughter and it is through her brother John (1711-1803), of East Norton Leics, that these boxes then passed through five generations to the vendor at Bonhams. 659 660. An 18th century Irish silver Freedom box, unmarked, circa 1770, circular form, the pull-off cover engraved with the arms and motto of the City of Cork, below ‘Corke Arms’, gilded interior, diameter 7.6cm, approx. weight 2.5oz. £1,000-1,500 For a similar example see: Culme, J., British Silver Boxes, 1640-1840, The Lion Collection, The Antique Collector’s Club 2015, page 156, entry 171.
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661. A pair of George III silver seal boxes, maker’s mark R.C, probably for Robert Cox, London circa 1760, oval navette form, the pull-off covers engraved with the arms of The University of Oxford, within foliate mantling, one box containing a wax seal, length 9cm, approx. weight 2.2oz. (2) £800-1,200
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