Silver-Mounted Tortuga Shell Rectangular Trinket Box
18th century
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L O T 5 3
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The slightly overhanging domed lid with applied hot resin decoration and seal, unusual “mountains and moonscape” tortuga shell pattern.
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Resin seal broken long ago, wear and tarnish to mounts.
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Purchased by Marco Territo in Sicily (1921), bequeathed to heirs, sold by private collector, Los Angeles, to Piermont & Thorne (1949).
Lot 53
Silver-Mounted Tortuga Shell Rectangular Trinket Box