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Auction: 24025 - Historical Documents Featuring the Major David Cecil Underwood Jr Collection of Royal Visits to India 1876-1906
Lot: 82

(x) The Major David Cecil Underwood Jr. Collection
India Royal Visit 1905-06
Royal presentation silver, parcel-gilt and enamel table snuff box, with a superb engine turned finish, a medallion with conjoined portraits of the Prince and Princess of Wales surrounded by a blue enamel Garter border inset into the lid, the reverse visible from the interior giving their names, titles and INDIA 1905-6 in the centre.
An engraved inscription in the inside lid reads "Presented to / C.J. Stevenson Moore / Indian Civil Service / Inspector General of Police / Lower Provinces - By Their Royal Highnesses / The Prince & Princess of Wales / As a Memento of Their Visit / To Bengal / 1905-06". Silver hallmark for 1904, makers mark JB/LW (5.5x3.5x1.5 inches).


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