Lot 713
A GEORGE I SILVER OVAL TOBACCO BOX
with moulded & reeded borders, and a pull-off cover, engraved with a crest and coat of arms within scroll mantling, the base engraved with three coats of arms: The Worshipful Company of Grocers, the City of London and the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers, the base also inscribed "Henry Weekley, Tothill Street, Westminster and further engraved with St. George slaying the dragon & the date "1735", by Edward Cornock, London 1723; 3.75" (9.5 cms) long; 4.1 oz;
*The arms on the cover appear to be unrecorded. The box contains a handwritten note which reads "The Family of Weekley are direct descendants of John ?Wycliffe (1320?-1384)", the English academic & theologian whose translation of the Bible into middle English appeared during the 1380's and 1390's.
