A Late Victorian Memento Mori Silver Trick Vesta Case by William Summers 1881 sub-Macabre- Medicine probably twenty or so years

probably twenty or so years in vintage and it is well executed

We have tightened the joints of the back splat where it joins to the seat frame and have given her a light wax to bring out the wonderful colour and patination in the mahogany

hall and umbrella stands were often made wholly of cast iron

to allow for the physical affects of the disease and surviving from the first decade of the twentieth century and probably France

There are knocks and chips that one would expect

A Late Victorian Memento Mori Silver Trick Vesta Case by William Summers 1881 sub-Macabre- Medicine probably twenty or so yearsOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1881 Width: 2. 5 Height: 1. 5 The Victorian silver 'trick' vesta case by William Summers of London, in 1881, the whole of oval form, the top with applied domed skeleton memento mori plaque, on an engine turned ground with invisible hinged cover, opened by pressing on one long edge, to a serrated striker plate to one side, the whole surviving from the high Victorian period. The vesta