A GEM-SET CIGAR CASE, BY CARTIER
French assay marks for 18K gold; Stamped ‘Cartier. Paris. Londres. New York’, ‘Made in France’ and No 03412
Plain rectangular with two compartments, the cover with three-stone sugarloaf sapphire pushpiece and engraved with a Marquess’ crown, marked inside, in a fitted case
6 in. (15.3 cm.) long
5 oz. 1 dwt. (158 gr.)

Sold for GBP 5,000 at Christie’s in 2019

An 18 carat gold cigar case
Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co Ltd, London 1913, also engraved with maker to the rim
Oblong form with curved front and back, rounded corners, the front engraved with a crest and motto, the thumb-catch with metal bar, length 15cm, weight total 203gms.

Sold for £5,000 at Bonham’s in 2022

A 14K Gold, Guilloché Enamel, Diamond, and Hardstone Cigar Case in the Manner of Fabergé, late 20th century 8 x 1-1/8 x 1-1/8 inches (20.3 x 2.9 x 2.9 cm) 229 grams (gross) The baton-form cigar case, featuring gold mounts on a white guilloché enamel ground set with diamonds and ruby cabochons, monogrammed A III to the crowned laurel wreath cartouche, presented in a fitted wooden case.

Sold for US$5,000 at Heritage Auctions, in 2021

AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY 9CT GOLD CIGAR CASE the two sectioned case of plain form with sprung lid, app. weight 82g – Sampson Mordon & Co. London. 1907 (15cm long)

Sold for £1,150 at Hutchinson Scott Auctioneers in 2021

A GOLD AND ENAMEL CIGAR CASE WITH PEARL-FRAMED ENAMEL MINIATURE, GENEVA, CIRCA 1850

of upright form, oval section, the front applied with an oval enamel miniature, Geneva school, circa 1835, of a lady with roses in her dark hair, wearing a purple gown trimmed with black lace, pearl frame, the pull-on lid and base engraved and inlaid in painted, basse-taille and champlevé enamels with summer flowers and strapwork on variously-textured grounds, the reverse painted en plein with figures in renaissance dress strolling in a wood, apparently unmarked apart from later control mark

Sold for 6,000 GBP at Sotheby’s in 2020

An early 19th century French gold and enamelled snuff box, by Victoire Boizot (veuve Blerzy), Paris 1808 – 1819 Unusual wavy-edge rectangular form, the cover centred with an enamel plaque depicting a harbour scene with mountains in the distance, a barque with pennants fluttering with the sun setting behind over a rayed engine-turned ground, within a stiff leafed frame and a border of pale green-highlighted acanthus scrolls on a lilac enamel ground with red and white paterae, the underside with blue pink and red enamel of radiating wavy lines centered on a patera, the sides with translucent red taille d’epergne wavy lines between white bands on a pink ground, the base centred with the tugra of Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II (1784-1839) on a pink ground with translucent red roses and a similar acanthus border, length 8cm, weight total 188gms. Sold for £18,125 inc. premium at Bonhams in 2018

A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO SNUFF-BOX MAKER’S MARK CYRILLIC ‘DSh’, MOSCOW, 1818 Rectangular, the nielloed hinged cover depicting Emperor Alexander I and allegorical figure of Europe, within an architectural setting, the sides inscribed in Russian ‘Your firmness saved Europe / Your victory brought peace’, also inscribed ‘Peace in Europe 1814’, the base nielloed with military trophies, all on gilt stippled ground, interior gilt, marked inside cover and base 3½ in. (8.8 cm.) wide 3.5 oz. (110 gr.) gross Sold for GBP 2,000 at Christies in 2017

A PORCELAIN SNUFF BOX, GERMAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY cartouche shaped with waisted sides, the lid and sides painted with vignettes of military figures in a skirmish and outside tents reserved on a magenta scalework ground, the lid interior with a portrait of Frederick the Great, silver-gilt mount maker’s marked DE 7.8cm long. Sold for £1,300 at Matthew Barton Ltd. in 2016

A commemorative gold and enamel double portrait snuff box, maker’s mark IB probably for James Bellis, London, 1767 oval, the lid set with an earlier glazed portrait of Sir Robert Rich, (1685-1768), 4th Baronet, of Roos (Rose) Hall, Suffolk, painted on enamel by Charles Boit, signed ‘Boit p.’, circa 1710-15, the interior of the lid with an earlier portrait of his wife, Elizabeth Griffith (died 1773), by Christian Frederich Zincke, circa 1710 -15, chased overall with military trophies within key fret over a hatched ground, maker’s mark IB in a cut-cornered rectangle, London standard marks and date letter, in contemporary plush-lined fishskin case Sold for 68,750 GBP at Sothebys in 2017

A Russian 88 standard silver and cloisonné enamel cheroot or cigar case by Ivan Khlebnikov, Moscow, 1887 Length 5in (12.75cm); weight approximately 8.5oz troy.

Sold for US$2,375 (£1,750) inc. premium at Bonhams in 2017

A GOOD RUSSIAN SILVER NIELLO CIGAR CASE, the cover engraved with a square and town, 19cms long, stamped B.C. 1869.

Sold for £260 at John Nicholson Auctioneers in 2017

19th c. Russian-84 Silver and Niello Scenic Cheroot or Cigar Case, Moscow, 1868, assayer V. Savinsky, with Cyrillic maker’s mark ‘Ae’, lid engraved with architectural view of military compound or fortified square with chapel, niello checkerboard decoration to lid and base, gilt washed interior, spring button opening, 4 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ x 7/8″, 4.38 ozt. Small base dent and niello loss and old surface stain, probably from a tie or elastic band.

Sold for $200 at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in 2017

Boer War interest: a Victorian silver and enamel cigar case by Saunders & Shepherd, Birmingham 1899 The front enamelled with a British soldier and ‘A Gentleman in Kharki’, length 12.6cm, weight 7oz. FOOTNOTES ‘A Gentleman in Khaki’ is a line from the Kipling poem The Absent-Minded Beggar. It was written in 1899 to raise money for the families of soldiers fighting in the Second Boer War.

Sold for £1,625 inc. premium at Bonhams in 2018

A silver-gilt and enamel cigar case, A. Postnikov, Moscow, 1881 the lid enamelled after a photograph of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna with her children, Grand Dukes Kyrill, Boris and Andrei Vladimirovich, the reverse applied with an enamel plaque painted with the Warrant of the Purveyor to the Grand-Ducal Court of Vladimir Alexandrovich, 84 standard length 13cm, 5 1/8 in.

Sold for 10,000 GBP at Sothebys in 2017