Lot 605
AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY MOUNTED PRESSED HORN OVAL TOBACCO BOX
the pull-off cover with an outdoor tavern scene in relief: three men at a table, smoking and drinking punch, a serving maid to the left and a fourth man answering nature's call to the right, signed "SL" for Samuel Lambelet (a contemporary of John Obrisset), 1710-20; 4" (10 cms) long
*Literature: See Hardwick, Paul: Discovering Horn, Lutterworth Press 1981 pp 99. for an illustration of an unmounted example of this box by Lambelet.
