Pick of the week: Box pushes sentimentality aside for a siege celebration at Welsh auction

Although catalogued as 19th century, this horn, fruitwood and bone inlaid oval patch or snuff box offered by Rogers Jones in Colwyn Bay in north Wales is of a type associated with the late 17th century.

Similar boxes carry sentimental mottos but the inscription to this example reads Sige of Namvr [si…

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