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Auction: 9015 - The "Blue Eyes" Collection of Fine and Rare Stamp Boxes
Lot: 69

Stamp Boxes and Related Items English Silver Boxes Birmingham Assay Office 1896 stamp and sovereign case by Saunders and Shepherd, plain rectangular design the front finely engraved with the crest of the Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment and inscribed "presented to/surgeon major sutcliffe,/by the members of the/above section/on his/retiring from the regiment/january 1898", the case opening in half to reveal a spring loaded stamp compartment and half and full sovereign compartments, the main body also housing a silver pencil; very fine and superb quality Estimate £ 650-700

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