Lot 1020
A GEORGE III SILVERGILT SNUFF BOX
rectangular with rounded corners and engine-turned sides and base, the cover inset with a cast and chased panel depicting an interior scene from antiquity representing the meeting of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, within a chased border, the cover interior inscribed ""Presented to Thomas Humphries Esq. COMMANDER of the SEA PARK BY FREDERICK AUGUSTUS HARDY 89th Regiment""; Maker is William Snooke Hall. Made in London, 1818. 5.2 oz *The Sea Park (built after 1838) was one of many vessels in the Dunbar Line Fleet. These ships were employed as troop ships in the Crimean War, carrying convicts to Australia, emigrants to New Zealand and Australia, tea home from China and spices and many other things from India. Under Captain Humphries the Sea Park was noted to have been in Hong Kong prior to 29 Sept. 1845 and by the 1850's it had become a convict ship.
